Bug#782635: tomcat8-admin: Default upload limit for manager app too small with no way to override

[Emmanuel Bourg]

Le 18/04/2015 à 22:16, Dominic Hargreaves a écrit :

> There are some other suggestions which are probably better than moving
> the whole of web.xml?
> 
> "One option would be for Debian to use external entities for the
> configurable elements and place the file that defines those entities
> somewhere where users can edit it."

This sounds fine. If someone provides a patch implementing this idea I'm
willing to review and apply it.


> "Another option (I think) is to use the property replacement feature. I.e.
> ${property.name} in web.xml and property.name=foo in catalina.properties
> 
> The only question is if this works in web.xml which I don't recall and I don't
> have easy access to the source to check. If it doesn't work we should be able to
> fix that easily."

I don't think this works, the only property replacement code is in
Bootstrap.java for parsing the catalina.properties file and creating the
classloaders.

Emmanuel Bourg