Hello,

I've been working with an Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop VM for some time, and it has worked very well so far. Note that this is a fully graphical installation, so I didn't have to work Xvnc to give Convertigo a 'head' to work with.

I have a clean downloaded binary distribution of Apache Tomcat 6.0.26 that sits in my personal desktop space. I run startup.sh and everything works fine!

I recently added Apache HTTPD to the mix so that I could easily listen on port 80. I installed httpd via the Apache2 package in the normal Ubuntu repositories. I decided that while I was doing this, I should move my tomcat home off my Desktop and into /usr/lib where it belongs.

When I move tomcat, everything starts up fine, I can even use the Convertigo admin panel. But when I try to execute web transactions, I get a NullPointer error coming from some eclipse SWT code. I think there is some setup step I am missing?

I have a few questions then.
-Did everything work fine, including web transactions, with initial setup ? (tomcat on the desktop, no httpd) ?
-Corollary : does it work with no httpd but tomcat in new location ? and with httpd but tomcat still on the desktop ?
-If all you need is to be able to listen on port 80, why not simply change Connector port in tomcat server.xml conf file ?
-Could this be a simple permission problem with the new tomcat location and the user running tomcat ?

I didn't have any problems with the initial setup, tomcat on port 8080 from the Desktop. I didn't use a lot of Legacy Connectors, but Web connectors seemed fine.

Without httpd, I still got the SWT error when accessing tomcat via 8080 in the new location (/usr/lib).

What I have working now is a standard repo install of httpd on 80, forwarding to tomcat on 8080 run manually from the Desktop.

I'm not sure, but I think you have to run tomcat as root to listen on port 80? Since I'm running it manually, this didn't seem secure. Also, I was curious to see how to set up the httpd/tomcat combo!

I think you're right, something wrong with permissions. When I moved it, I also ran chown -R on the whole directory (including the webapps w/ Convertigo) to change ownership to a tomcat user rather than my user. Do you think this would cause a problem?

I did also try adding

-Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath=/usr/lib/xulrunner"

to the setenv.sh script for tomcat. It didn't seem to have any effect.