How to move the 'lib' folder in a rpm-based tomcat installation.

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Tomcat 6

Issue

  • How to move the 'lib' folder in a rpm-based tomcat installation.
  • Customer jars are deployed to the 'lib' folder; however, there is not enough space on the filesystem to hold these jars by default. How is this directory moved?

Resolution

  1. Copy over the bin/ and lib/ directories and their contents to this directory.

  2. Remove the three broken symlinks in lib/:

    tomcat6-el-2.1-api-6.0.24.jar
tomcat6-jsp-2.1-api-6.0.24.jar
tomcat6-servlet-2.5-api-6.0.24.jar

  3. Create symlinks pointing to the correct location (this should have been /usr/share/java):

    # cd /apps/tomcat
# ln -s /usr/share/java/tomcat6-el-2.1-api-6.0.24.jar .
# ln -s /usr/share/java/tomcat6-jsp-2.1-api-6.0.24.jar .
# ln -s /usr/share/java/tomcat6-servlet-2.5-api-6.0.24.jar .

  4. Adjust the CATALINA_HOME and JASPER_HOME directives to point to /apps/tomcat; these should be identical to CATALINA_BASE.

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