Comment 0 for bug 1482893

Please fix the following line in catalina.properties in all tomcat source packages.

WRONG:
common.loader=${catalina.base}/lib,${catalina.base}/lib/*.jar,${catalina.home}/lib,${catalina.home}/lib/*.jar,${catalina.home}/common/classes,${catalina.home}/common/*.jar

CORRECT:
common.loader=${catalina.base}/common/classes,${catalina.base}/common/*.jar,${catalina.home}/lib,${catalina.home}/lib/*.jar

Following problems with the wrong statement:
1. Odering is wrong: catalina.base should overrule catalina.home here (see class loader howto below).
2. catalina.home is expanded normally to /usr/share/tomcat7, but there is no common directory - it is below
/var/lib/tomcat7 (as expanded by catalina.base).
3. ${catalina.base}/lib,${catalina.base}/lib/*.jar are pointing to non existing directories. I recommend to skip this part.

For reference see https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/class-loader-howto.html
> The locations searched by this class loader are defined by the common.loader property in
> $CATALINA_BASE/conf/catalina.properties.
> The default setting will search the following locations in the order they are listed:
>
> unpacked classes and resources in $CATALINA_BASE/lib
> JAR files in $CATALINA_BASE/lib
> unpacked classes and resources in $CATALINA_HOME/lib
> JAR files in $CATALINA_HOME/lib