Unable to create the directory error

Question

I created a new subdomain and uploaded the WAR file into its directory, but the server returns following error.

java.io.IOException: Unable to create the directory[/home/jack/public_html/WAR/MYWAR]
.....

The permission of WAR folder and the WAR file are 0755.

drwxr-xr-x  4 jack jack      4096 Feb  2 02:43 ./
drwxr-xr-x 10 jack nobody     4096 Jan 25 01:48 ../
drwxr-xr-x  2 jack jack      4096 Jan 24 22:38 cgi-bin/
-rwxr-xr-x  1 jack jack  82135738 Feb  2 02:23 MYWAR.war*
drwxr-xr-x  4 jack jack      4096 Jan 25 01:31 WEB-INF/

ps -aux | grep tomcat

Warning: bad syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See /usr/share/doc/procps-3.2.8/FAQ
root      1239  0.0  0.0 103240   864 pts/2    S+   04:38   0:00 grep tomcat
root      1330  0.0  0.0  10436   352 ?        Ss   Feb01   0:00 jsvc.exec -user tomcat -cp ./bootstrap.jar -Djava.endorsed.dirs=../common/endorsed -outfile ../logs/catalina.out -errfile ../logs/catalina.err -verbose org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start
tomcat    1334  0.2 14.9 1566688 151852 ?      Sl   Feb01   1:38 jsvc.exec -user tomcat -cp ./bootstrap.jar -Djava.endorsed.dirs=../common/endorsed -outfile ../logs/catalina.out -errfile ../logs/catalina.err -verbose org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start

Answer 1

If permission, user and group are correct. Maybe the answer is selinux.

Answer 2

try:

sudo chown -R tomcat:tomcat /home/jack/public_html/

probably you shouldn't need to change for the entire public_html, but you can try to see if it works, and then restrict permissions to your desired folder.