My JSPWiki servlet on Tomcat cannot make use of a wiki page directory not located in tomcat/lib as it did before. Any idea why?
I am using JSPWiki 2.11.3 and Tomcat 10.1.6. In jspwiki-custom.properties I have specified
jspwiki.fileSystemProvider.pageDir = /home/rsc/share/tomcat/lib/jw
where /home/rsc/share is a mount point of a different disk. Tomcat itself is install at /opt/tomcat without modifications.
Access rights should be ok: The tomcat user is in the group of the symbolic link and the wiki pages directory. Group members have read and write access and x access for folders, recursively.
When I copy the wiki pages folder over to tomcat/lib and change the jspwiki-custom.properties accordingly, JSPWiki works as expected.
I have the same configuration running on a different VM. I compared all configuration files: they are equal.
The differences are:
It works as expected on Debian 11 / Tomcat 10.1.4.
With the same Tomcat and JSPWiki configuration it makes problems on Arch manjaro / Tomcat 10.1.6.
Here you can find the Tomcat log.
Do not put a mount point below a users home directory.
I moved the mount point of VBox shared folder from /home/rsc/share to /home/share. That way the tomcat user is not restricted by the access permissions of the rsc users home directory.
Why this situation works in Debian 11 would need further investigation.