[xwiki-users] Access denied to xwiki.cfg

[Fernando Lozano]

Hi Vincent,

Just checking if I missed something obvious. Shouldn't XWiki call call
File.canRead() instead of  File.exists()? Actually, by reading the Java
SE API docs it looks like canRead() will throw the same Security
Exception, so the solution would be to catch it. But it's kinda nonsense
to have a method that should return false if I can't read a file and
this method instead throws an exception.

When I start my patching excercise, should I use either XWiki 1.0
sources or 1.1? For me, 1,1 should be almost production-ready to be
viable, but I could restrict myself to only 1.0 features.


[]s, Fernando Lozano

> Hi Fernando,
>
> This is indeed a bug. Here's what we do:
>
>                     InputStream xwikicfgis = null;
>
>                     // first try to load the file pointed by the given
> path
>                     // if it does not exist, look for it relative to
> the classpath
>                     File f = new File(xwikicfg);
>                     if (f.exists()) {
>                         xwikicfgis = new FileInputStream(f);
>                     } else {
>                         xwikicfgis =
> econtext.getResourceAsStream(xwikicfg);
> ...
>
> The pb is that f.exists() will return true and new FileInputStream
> will throw an exception and thus the else will not get executed.
>
> I have opened an issue: http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-1539
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
> On Jul 26, 2007, at 11:06 PM, Fernando Lozano wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> After running XWiki fine in my local server, I'm trying to run it on
>> my hosting provider.
>> Acces to WebHome yelds the error:
>>
>> javax.servlet.ServletException: Error number 3 in 0: Could not
>> initialize main XWiki context
>> Wrapped Exception: access denied (java.io.FilePermission
>> /WEB-INF/xwiki.cfg read)
>>
>> I tried changing web.xml <http://web.xml> to
>>
>> <env-entry>
>>         <env-entry-name>XWikiConfig</env-entry-name>
>>         <!--
>>         <env-entry-value>/WEB-INF/xwiki.cfg</env-entry-value>
>>         -->
>>        
>> <env-entry-value>/virtual/lozano.eti.br/www/xwiki/WEB-INF/xwiki.cfg</env
>> -entry-value>
>>         <env-entry-type>java.lang.String</env-entry-type>
>>     </env-entry>
>>
>> That is, I tried cofiguring the real phisical path to the xwiki.cfg file,
>> But still get the same error.
>>
>> My ISP tells me Xwiki is trying to get /WEB-INF/xwiki.cfg as an
>> absolute file system path,
>> not as a context-relative path, and it looks like changing the
>> <env-entry> has no effect.
>>
>> What should I do?
>>
>>
>> []s, Fernando Lozano
>>
>>
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>>
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