Comment 7 for bug 294277

Intrepid SRU Report

Bug impact: Tomcat doesn't fully autodeploy applications dropped into /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps: it fails to autodeploy the context file into /etc/tomcat6/Catalina/localhost. This results in half-deployed applications and a difficult problem to troubleshoot.

Versions affected: Intrepid (tomcat6 didn't exist before)
Fix in development branch: Was fixed in 6.0.18-0ubuntu4 (see comment 5)

Minimal patch: see comment 6 just above. This will be released as a combined SRU with bug 283852.

TEST CASE:
Download the attached test-deploy.war, then:
$ sudo apt-get install tomcat6
$ sudo cp test-deploy.war /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/
After a few seconds, you should be able to access http://localhost:8080/test-deploy/
Without the fix, the displayed context parameter value is "null". /etc/tomcat6/Catalina/localhost doesn't exist.
With the fix, the displayed context parameter value is "My Company, Incorporated". An /etc/tomcat6/Catalina/localhost/test-deploy.xml file was automatically created.

Regression potential:
The patch basically creates the Catalina/localhost directories in tomcat6 (rather than waiting for a webapp package to create them) and changes the permissions from root:root 755 to 775 root:tomcat6. This is a targeted and permissive change, so the regression potential is very low.