[cobalt-developers] Tomcat custom policy file usage

[Jay Nelson <jay@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

There have been a few questions and answers about the
tomcat policy file and customizing for specific sites.
For the real scoop look in
/usr/java/jakarta-3.2.3/bin/cobalt-config.pl

This PERL script is run every time you start tomcat.  If
you are fiddling with custom policies, your best bet is
to create a tomcat.policy.custom file or a
tomcat.policy.www.specificsite.com file as you need.
These files go in /usr/java/jakarta-3.2.3/conf

You have to edit tomcat.policy.master to grant privileges
outside of a site (e.g., I put a mm.mysql directory in
a global location outside the doctree and grant
privileges to access it so that I don't have to replicate
the mysql driver to each host website directory).

Then run cobalt_config.pl script and view the file
/usr/java/jakarta-3.2.3/conf/tomcat.policy to see
the result without impacting the webserver.

Once the tomcat.policy file looks fine, you can restart
tomcat to try the effect.  Tweak the cobalt_config.pl
if you want the policy file generated differently (e.g.,
I currently only support tomcat on one site rather than
all sites).


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