Re: [OT] Strange 404 errors

[Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net>]

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George,

Please don't hijack threads. Please post a new message to the list if
you want to ask a new question.

- -chris

On 7/20/17 9:52 AM, George I. Develekos wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> On a Tomcat 7.0.67 installation  on CentOS 7, I have defined a
> context alias in /usr/local/tomcat/conf/context.xml . This is
> common practice for many installations I manage, it normally works
> 100%.
> 
> Yet here that alias and its content are giving me 404 errors.
> 
> The context alias is called "calllogs" and points to 
> "/home/myuser/myfolder"
> 
> Tomcat runs under myuser account.
> 
> Therefore I can't see why any entries under /home/myuser/myfolder
> would return a 404 when accessed through the context alias. I have
> also enabled dir listings, and I can't see host:8080/calllogs, it
> also gives me 404. It's as if the context alias is completely
> missing.
> 
> A different server at the same customer does not have this problem.
> _The only difference between the two servers is that the
> problematic one has a Selinux-enabled kernel. _Could this be the
> root cause? Selinux is set to permissive.
> 
> On the non-problematic server I can see host:8080/calllogs listing,
> plus all files that live under /home/myuser/myfolder, e.g. I can
> see /home/myuser/myfolder/myfile.txt via
> host:8080/calllogs/myfile.txt, as one would expect.
> 
> This problem is a show-stopper for me so I'd really appreciate your
> help.
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> 
> George
> 
> 
> 
> 
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