Article - CS273284

Tomcat does not start with command "systemctl start <tomcat.service>" for ThingWorx on Linux

Modified: 12-Mar-2021   


Applies To

  • ThingWorx Platform 7.4 to 9.1
  • Linux

Description

  • Tomcat does not start as a service in Linux but starts up using ./startup.sh
  • As per security recommendations, general (other) users should not have read access to $CATALINA_HOME or $TOMCAT_HOME
  • When revoked access for others (general) users, Tomcat does not start with command
    systemctl start <tomcat.service>
  • Permissions are showing root as the owner of tomcat folders:
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 160 MMM DD 13:52 8.0.33
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