Bug 35054

Summary:	warn if appBase is not existing as a File or directory
Product:	Tomcat 5	Reporter:	Ralf Hauser <hauser>
Component:	Catalina	Assignee:	Tomcat Developers Mailing List <dev>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P2
Version:	Nightly Build
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Attachments:	HostConfig.java.patch HostConfig.java.patch2 HostConfig.java.patch3

Description Ralf Hauser 2005-05-25 10:03:08 UTC

otherwise, it may very hard to find what is wrong

Comment 1 Ralf Hauser 2005-05-25 10:04:42 UTC

Created attachment 15162 [details]
HostConfig.java.patch

a little bit more user-friendly

Comment 2 Ralf Hauser 2005-05-25 11:30:45 UTC

Created attachment 15163 [details]
HostConfig.java.patch2

yet more user-friendliness (and an error less)

Comment 3 Yoav Shapira 2005-07-21 23:45:24 UTC

I don't understand: your patches actually remove logging statements, yet the
title of this issue asks to add a warning, no?

Comment 4 Ralf Hauser 2005-07-22 06:45:29 UTC

Created attachment 15742 [details]
HostConfig.java.patch3

corrected - now using

diff -u HostConfig.java.orig HostConfig.java

Comment 5 Mark Thomas 2011-05-20 18:11:32 UTC

Specifying a non-existing appBase is not necessarily invalid. By default, Tomcat 7 will create the appBase if it does not already exist.

I have tweaked the tests Tomcat does in case a file is specified as an appBase.

I do not propose back-porting this to Tomcat 5 or 6.