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VIVO is an extensible semantic web application for research discovery and showcasing scholarly work
http://vivoweb.org
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Confluence docs: adding info about how to recognize a maven/tomcat user permission error #3982

Open GarrettArm opened 5 months ago

GarrettArm commented 5 months ago

https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/VIVODOC114x/Installing+VIVO

has a "Permissions" section stating: The maven user has write permission to the Tomcat webapps directory. Maven will fail silently if it cannot copy files to tomcat.

(if my understanding of maven installing vivo is correct) Can the wiki be amended to state: Adding your linux user to the 'tomcat' group is one solution. This silent failure can be observed by mvn install failing to create a folder at /webapps/vivo. (Your is set in installer/example-settings.xml)

As a non-Java programmer, I wouldn't expect a full education on Java within the doc. But a practical hint like this would be very useful.