topic Re: Problem with deploying war on tomcat - possibly permissions in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/problem-with-deploying-war-on-tomcat-possibly-permissions/m-p/17678#M7980 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Yes, you're right, it looks like a permissions problem.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>You need to run Tomcat as a user that has the permission to create/write files in the area you installed i.e. /opt/alfresco.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>By default the alf_data folder is created in the current directory. You should really change this to be a specific location, see this wiki page for details on doing this: </SPAN><A href="http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Repository_Configuration" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Repository_Configuration</A></BODY></HTML> Tue, 21 Mar 2006 10:03:54 GMT gavinc 2006-03-21T10:03:54Z Problem with deploying war on tomcat - possibly permissions https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/problem-with-deploying-war-on-tomcat-possibly-permissions/m-p/17677#M7979 Hello, first I would like to thank you all for doing this, I am quite excited to try it out. That said I am having a problem while trying to deploy on a pre-built tomcat server (I used the instructions here: http://www.reliablepenguin.com/legacy/projects/tomcat/). It looks like a file permissions pr Tue, 21 Mar 2006 03:03:33 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/problem-with-deploying-war-on-tomcat-possibly-permissions/m-p/17677#M7979 mnovinger 2006-03-21T03:03:33Z Re: Problem with deploying war on tomcat - possibly permissions https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/problem-with-deploying-war-on-tomcat-possibly-permissions/m-p/17678#M7980 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Yes, you're right, it looks like a permissions problem.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>You need to run Tomcat as a user that has the permission to create/write files in the area you installed i.e. /opt/alfresco.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>By default the alf_data folder is created in the current directory. You should really change this to be a specific location, see this wiki page for details on doing this: </SPAN><A href="http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Repository_Configuration" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Repository_Configuration</A></BODY></HTML> Tue, 21 Mar 2006 10:03:54 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/problem-with-deploying-war-on-tomcat-possibly-permissions/m-p/17678#M7980 gavinc 2006-03-21T10:03:54Z