Permission denied on Linux (Subsonic 2.5)

[anker]

Hi,

I just upgraded to subsonic 2.5 on my Fedora Core 4 Box. It seemed to run perfectly at first sight (and I really like the new user administration, thanks a lot) but when I try to access an MP3 file from the library, I get a Permission Denied athough user tomcat is allowed to enter the directory I'm trying to access.

Situation is the following: My files reside under /bla/mp3/files. Subsonic does show the directories that are in this directory. But when I click one of the links I get the following error:

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Access denied to file /bla/mp3
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:372)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:292)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:236)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
org.securityfilter.filter.SecurityFilter.doFilter(SecurityFilter.java:188)

Seems a bit strange to me that the directory listing can be displayed which is located below the directory I seemingly cannot access.

Any ideas?

[anker]

Just a short additional comment: Streaming DOES work, but the main frame of subsonic (which normally shows the "now playing" part) tells me something about the mentioned "Permission denied".

Regards,

Andreas.

[anker]

Hi,

it was again a problem of a symbolic link. The directory /bla is a link to somehere else. If a set the true path instead of the link in the settings, everything works fine.

Thank you again for this great piece of software.

[sindre_mehus]

Hi and thanks for the info!

I've received other reports about "Permission denied" problems when using symlinks as music folders. I'll definitely look into it, but I currently don't have a Linux system available for testing.

Until then, Linux users are adviced to not use symlinks as music folders.

Have a nice weekend
-Sindre

[Ikyo]

I will take a look at it when I get home later tonight. Who created the symlink and is the symlink nested in a folder or off of root?

[anker]

The symlink was created by root (of course, it's in /). But that shouldn't matter, at least from the OS's point of view, because the directory it links to is mode 0755. But I'm no Java programmer, so I don't know how this will affect the code in this case.

[Ikyo]

It is sounding like it doesn't know how to follow the symlink. I had the same issue originally on mine, but I just changed it to the absolute path.

[Ikyo]

It is sounding like it doesn't know how to follow the symlink. I had the same issue originally on mine, but I just changed it to the absolute path.