From 9d78e802e6aad85fad7d8ecb01f227f86a990e8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: brutzman <brutzman@nps.edu>
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2021 21:04:01 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] updated tomcat guidance:  preferred Windows installation is
 to extract zip, the installer results in problematic permissions

---
 developers.html | 24 ++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/developers.html b/developers.html
index f97a61e823..c5c2ac05d6 100644
--- a/developers.html
+++ b/developers.html
@@ -2456,29 +2456,29 @@ netbeans_jdkhome="C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_221"</pre>
           </li>
       </ul>
       <p>
-          Developer notes:
+          Developer installation notes:
       </p>
       <ul>
           <li>
-              Ensure that <code>nb-javac</code> plugin is installed.
-          </li>
-          <li>
-              Allowing permissions for local user (rather than local administrator) 
-              seems to be necessary for Tomcat configuration and access on Windows.
+              <span style="color:darkorange"><b>Windows installation warning:</b></span>
+              the Apache Tomcat installer has permissions problems.  Extract the zip to a
+              local directory instead.
           </li>
           <li>
               Ensure that environment variable <code>CATALINA_HOME</code> 
               points to root directory of current Tomcat installation, for example
-              <code>C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 9.0</code>
+              <code>C:\languages\java\apache-tomcat-9.0.54</code>
+          </li>
+          <li>
+              Ensure that <code>nb-javac</code> plugin is installed.
           </li>
           <li>
               No plans yet to upgrade to Tomcat&nbsp;10 since package and API invocation is much different.
           </li>
-          <!-- fixed
+          <!-- problematic for Windows installer
           <li>
-              <span style="color:darkorange"><b>Warning, troubleshooting in progress:</b></span>
-              not working in Netbeans&nbsp;12.4, unsuccessful backtracking to Netbeans&nbsp;12.2 and OpenJDK&nbsp;14.02, 
-              still trying...
+              Allowing permissions for local user (rather than local administrator) 
+              seems to be necessary for Tomcat configuration and access on Windows.
           </li>
           <li> apparently fixed
               TODO confirm/omit.
@@ -2494,7 +2494,7 @@ netbeans_jdkhome="C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_221"</pre>
           Example information for <i>conf/tomcat-users.xml</i> configuration file follows.
           Note that any username must also be configured in the Tomcat installation itself.
       </p>
-<pre style="background-color:lightgrey">
+      <pre style="background-color:#ddffdd">
 &lt;role rolename="admin"/&gt;
 &lt;role rolename="admin-gui"/&gt;
 &lt;role rolename="admin-script"/&gt;
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