Tomcat configuration for Spring app.

Question

Hello,

I have built web application for use in Tomcat. It depends on Spring. I have the following exception when trying to access it:

java.security.AccessControlException: access denied (java.lang.RuntimePermission createClassLoader)

I read tomcat docs, and found that I need to configure security. I added following lines to
"/usr/share/tomcat/conf/catalina.policy":

grant codeBase "file:${catalina.home}/webapps/MyProject/-" {
    permission java.lang.RuntimePermission;
};

But it didn't help. To add, I installed Tomcat by pasting following commands:

sudo apt-get install tomcat6
cd /usr/share/tomcat6
sudo ln -s /var/lib/tomcat6/conf conf
sudo ln -s /etc/tomcat6/policy.d/03catalina.policy conf/catalina.policy
sudo ln -s /var/log/tomcat6 log
sudo chmod -R 777 /usr/share/tomcat6/conf

I have restarted server. The project exist in specified location.

What am I doing wrong?

I would really like to modify as few things on server as it is possible, without copying additional jars into servers lib folder.

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My

Tomcat version = Apache Tomcat/6.0.20

Spring version = 3.0.1.RELEASE

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The stack trace is too big to post it here, so please, follow link to see it.

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Can anybody help me? To add, it is executed without exceptions on my Apache Geronimo.

Answer 1

I wouldn't use those symbolic links. Instead I would deploy at $CATALINA_BASE/webapps (check out /etc/init.d/tomcat6). Then in the policy file (/etc/tomcat6/policy.d/03catalina.policy):

grant codeBase "file:${catalina.base}/webapps/MyProject/WEB-INF/lib/-" {
    permission java.lang.RuntimePermission "createClassLoader";
};

Another option can be editing /etc/tomcat6/policy.d/04webapps.policy.

That worked for me some time ago.

Regards.