[Bug 324212] [NEW] Tomcat 6 does not respect CATALINA_BASE/lib

[Magne Rasmussen]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: tomcat6

Tomcat6 ignores any libraries placed in CATALINA_BASE/lib.

As commented by Thierry Carrez in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/315314:
    Tomcat6 is run with CATALINA_HOME set to /usr/share/tomcat6 and CATALINA_BASE set
    to /var/lib/tomcat6. If you read the Tomcat RUNNING.txt doc (available at
    /usr/share/doc/tomcat6-common/RUNNING.txt.gz) you'll see that Tomcat6 is looking at
    libraries at CATALINA_HOME/lib and doesn't look into CATALINA_BASE/lib. So the current
    behavior is following the spec.

This is confusing, since every other directory (bin, conf, logs,
webapps, work, and temp) is respected in CATALINA_BASE, and especially
since the CATALINA_BASE/lib directory exists. It also makes it
impossible to run two instances of Tomcat with conflicting libraries.

I propose that Tomcat6 also uses CATALINA_BASE/lib (before, or instead
of, CATALINA_HOME/lib) when searching for classes.

Distro/package versions:
Ubuntu 8.10
tomcat6*: 6.0.18-0ubuntu3.1

** Affects: tomcat6 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Tomcat 6 does not respect CATALINA_BASE/lib
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/324212
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