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On 12/1/2013 1:55 PM, Philipp Kraus wrote:
> Hello,
> I have got a precomiled war file and in the web.xml exists some
> values e.g.:
>
> <init-param> <param-name>database.location</param-name>
> <param-value>${user.home}/sysdata</param-value> </init-param>
>
> The Tomcat runs under root, so it creates under /root/sysdata the
> data files, but I would like to change the directory, the data should
> be stored in /home/mywar/sysdata
>
> Phil
>
>

Run Tomcat as an unprivileged user.

If you need to have Tomcat serve on port 80, use jsvc, iptables to map 
port 80 to port 8080, or place an Apache HTTPD server in front of Tomcat 
using mod_proxy_http, mod_proxy_ajp, or mod_jk.

You could also unpack the WAR file, change the param value, and 
repackage the WAR file. Of course, the user Tomcat is running under will 
need to have privileges to the directory you change the param value to.

. . . just my two cents.
/mde/

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