User Permission Issue | FAIL – Application at context path /

[Kagilum]

I am unable to start icescrum after all configuration and setup

This is the error message i get when i tried to start icesrum in tomcat-admin manager

Message:

FAIL - Application at context path /icescrum could not be started

This is from icescrum.log, it clearly says to “please check directory & user permission”. But I’m unable to figure it out.

2014-11-21 08:36:42,465 [http-bio-8080-exec-12] INFO  grails.spring.BeanBuilder  - [RuntimeConfiguration] Configuring data source for environment: PRODUCTION

2014-11-21 08:36:44,997 [http-bio-8080-exec-12] ERROR org.icescrum.core.support.ApplicationSupport  - Error (exception) could not create file: /usr/share/tomcat7/icescrum/appID.txt please check directory & user permission

2014-11-21 08:36:45,009 [http-bio-8080-exec-12] ERROR org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader  - Context initialization failed

I am installing in Ubuntu 14.04 with Tomcat 7 and Java 7 following the guide – https://www.icescrum.com/documentation/install-guide/

Pleae help me to figure out this even if it’s a minor mistake. Thank you.

[Nicolas Noullet]

Hello,

The documentation indicates how to configure the iceScrum base directory:

icescrum.baseDir = "/icescrum"

/* Use a custom directory where Tomcat has write rights

(not webapps!!). Path must use '/' (forward slash) */

Here, it seems that you have chosen /usr/share/tomcat7/icescrum/ so the user who starts Tomcat (often a user named tomcat, or you own user) must have the write permissions on this directory so iceScrum can create the files it needs to run properly.

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