17 Jul
2015
17 Jul
'15
10:15 a.m.
Sounds like I have a symlink issue to resolve. Many thanks for the suggestion.
Bryn
----- Reply message -----
From: "vincent(a)massol.net" <vincent(a)massol.net>
To: "XWiki Users" <users(a)xwiki.org>
Cc: "Bryn Jeffries" <bryn.jeffries(a)sydney.edu.au>
Subject: [xwiki-users] Location for filesystem objects XWiki 7.1
Date: Fri, Jul 17, 2015 17:40
Hi Bryn,
On 17 Jul 2015 at 01:06:54, Bryn Jeffries
(bryn.jeffries@sydney.edu.au(mailto:bryn.jeffries@sydney.edu.au)) wrote:
Hi,
I recently upgraded from XWiki 5.something to XWiki 7.1. The previous configuration
stored attachments in the filesystem, using a location set in xwiki.properties:
environment.permanentDirectory=/myxwikidata/xwiki/data
After upgrading I am missing icons from the wiki, and links to attachments are broken.
After consulting
http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Filesystem+Attachment+… I see
that the location used for attachments (obtained via
Utils.getComponent(FilesystemStoreTools.class).storageDir.getAbsolutePath() ) is
/var/cache/tomcat7/Catalina/localhost/xwiki/storage
Does anyone know where this location is set, and why the one in xwiki.properties is not
used? I see mention in that file that:
"Note if the system property xwiki.data.dir is set then this property is not
used."
But grepping the configuration files reveals no mention of the parameter xwiki.data.dir
This hasn’t changed, the configuration for the permanent dir is still
environment.permanentDirectory in xwiki.properties.
In your case it seems the xwiki.properties file is not in the right place or maybe you
didn’t modify the correct one because XWiki is using the temporary directory (you should
get a warning in the console logs by the way).
The xwiki.data.dir is not set by default except in the standalone distribution which
you’re probably not using anyway since you’re doing an upgrade and if you were using that
distribution it’s value is set to “data” which is not what you’re seeing.
So I would double check the location of xwiki.properties (should be in
WEB-INF/xwiki.properties).
Thanks
-Vincent