Re: WO app deployment on Linux no static image showing up [Permission issue SOLVED]

Hi Kevin,

You are correct on the following:

I think the reason maybe appserver and www-data are the same group in www-data. is that right?

-- Correct.  That is because you created an "appserver" user and added the user to the "www-data" group and the assets you have at least have "read" ability for the "www-data" group.  This would solve the permissions issue with httpd/Apache2 being able to access your assets.

I created new user appserver and add it to www-data group. I am running wotaskd and Monitor as appserver.

-- Also your question here:

What is  "WebObjectsDocumentRoot" for in webobjects.conf? because we use 'Alias /WebObjects" in apache2.conf? do we need "WebObjectsDocumentRoot"?

-- The "WebObjectsDocumentRoot" is used by the WO Apache HTTP Adaptor to know where your WO application lives on the system.  Normally in Apache, you'd set the CGI_DOCUMENT_ROOT, but this directive handles it for you, at least according to the documentation I've read over.  Both the "WebObjectsDocumentRoot" and applicable "Alias" directives are required for WO 5.4 to operate correctly with Apache2.

Cheers,
Daniel

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Ren, Xiaowen wrote:

Hi, Daniel,

 

I created new user appserver and add it to www-data group. I am running wotaskd and Monitor as appserver.

 

Apache2 is installed by Ubuntu as root:root by default, wouldn't change that.

After root start apache, the real APACHE_RUN_USER is setup in envvars file as

export APACHE_RUN_USER=www-data

export APACHE_RUN_GROUP=www-data

 

 

1. in webobjects.conf, leave

 

WebObjectsDocumentRoot /Apple/Local/Library/WebServer/Documents

2. apache2.conf

 

Alias /WebObjects "/Apple/Local/Library/WebServer/Documents/WebObjects"
<Directory "/Apple/Local/Library/WebServer/Documents/WebObjects">
      AllowOverride All
      Order allow,deny
      Allow from all
</Directory>

3. sudo chown appserver:www-data "/Apple/Local/Library/WebServer/Documents/WebObjects/MySchool.woa/Contents"

 

NOW it's working, I can get image from

http://156.13.128.145/WebObjects/MySchool.woa/Contents/WebServerResources/basicbrain.gif

 

 

further intersting question coming out

my first throught was www-data:www-data for "/Apple/Local/Library/WebServer/Documents/WebObjects/MySchool.woa/Contents", so I changed it.

 

still working, get image from link above.

 

I think the reason maybe appserver and www-data are the same group in www-data. is that right?

 

[Question]

What is  "WebObjectsDocumentRoot" for in webobjects.conf? because we use 'Alias /WebObjects" in apache2.conf? do we need "WebObjectsDocumentRoot"?

 

thanks

 

kevin

 

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