Article - CS273724

Executing lines from ThingWorx 8.1 installation guide for Ubuntu have typos and error out with "user tomcat 8.5 does not exist"

Modified: 13-Feb-2018   


Applies To

  • ThingWorx Platform 8.1 F000 to F000

Description

  • Errors installing Tomcat on Linux
    • user tomcat 8.5 does not exist
  • Linux command in version 1.1 of install guide needs a correction
  • Step 14 of section Installing Oracle Java and Apache Tomcat (Ubuntu) is incorrect
  • Installation guide for ThingWorx 8.1 for Ubuntu fails at step 14 / Page 22
    • Command lines from ThingWorx 8.1 installation guide for Ubuntu have typos
    • Line sudo addgroup --system tomcat8.5 --quiet —force-badname contains:
      • typo force-badname and 
    • Line sudo adduser --system --home /usr/share/tomcat8.5/ --no-create-home --ingroup tomcat8.5 --disabled-password --shell –force-badname/bin/false tomcat8.5 contains:
      • typo force-badname and 
      • wrong syntax
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