[SOLVED] Cannot start Apache Tomcat as a non-root user.

Grtyop · 01-21-2014, 11:36 PM

I manually started Apache Tomcat 6 via the command $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh and this is the result -

Code:

    Using CATALINA_BASE: /home/getx/Desktop/apache-tomcat-6.0.37
    Using CATALINA_HOME: /home/getx/Desktop/apache-tomcat-6.0.37
    Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /home/getx/Desktop/apache-tomcat-6.0.37/temp
    Using JRE_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/java
    Using CLASSPATH: /home/getx/Desktop/apache-tomcat-6.0.37/bin/bootstrap.jar

However, when I enter localhost:8080 in Firefox, nothing shows up.

It works when I run the command via sudo .

So I guessed it must be due to a permissions problem.

These are my permissions for my current user -

Code:

drwxr-xr-x 2 getx getx 4096 Jan 18 12:50 bin 
drwxr-xr-x 3 getx getx 4096 Jan 21 21:08 conf 
drwxr-xr-x 2 getx getx 4096 Jan 18 12:50 lib 
-rw-r--r-- 1 getx getx 37951 Apr 29 2013 LICENSE 
drwxr-xr-x 2 getx getx 4096 Jan 21 21:08 logs 
-rw-r--r-- 1 getx getx 558 Apr 29 2013 NOTICE 
-rw-r--r-- 1 getx getx 9188 Apr 29 2013 RELEASE-NOTES 
-rw-r--r-- 1 getx getx 16287 Apr 29 2013 RUNNING.txt 
drwxr-xr-x 2 getx getx 4096 Jan 18 12:50 temp 
drwxr-xr-x 7 getx getx 4096 Apr 29 2013 webapps 
drwxr-xr-x 3 getx getx 4096 Jan 21 21:08 work

Any help is appreciated

bathory · 01-22-2014, 12:42 AM

Hi,

From a terminal try to start tomcat as the user getx and from another terminal watch the logs using tail, to see what's happening:

Code:

tail -f home/getx/Desktop/apache-tomcat-6.0.37/logs/catalina.out

Regards

Grtyop · 01-22-2014, 01:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bathory

Hi,

From a terminal try to start tomcat as the user getx and from another terminal watch the logs using tail, to see what's happening:

Code:

tail -f home/getx/Desktop/apache-tomcat-6.0.37/logs/catalina.out

Regards

This is the new line that got written to the logs.

Code:

/home/getx/Desktop/apache-tomcat-6.0.37/bin/catalina.sh: 373: /home/getx/Desktop/apache-tomcat-6.0.37/bin/catalina.sh: /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin//bin/java: not found

Gahh I know the reason now.. Mysteriously OpenJDK adds its own /bin/java ... I removed my own /bin/java and it works.

Thanks for the idea of reading live tail logs