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+//
+// ========================================================================
+// Copyright (c) 1995-2016 Mort Bay Consulting Pty. Ltd.
+// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
+// are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
+// and Apache License v2.0 which accompanies this distribution.
+//
+// The Eclipse Public License is available at
+// http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+//
+// The Apache License v2.0 is available at
+// http://www.opensource.org/licenses/apache2.0.php
+//
+// You may elect to redistribute this code under either of these licenses.
+// ========================================================================
+//
+
+package org.eclipse.jetty.server;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+
+import org.eclipse.jetty.util.StringUtil;
+import org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.Log;
+import org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.Logger;
+
+/**
+ * Display an optional Warning Message if the {jetty.home} and {jetty.base} are the same directory.
+ * <p>
+ * This is to warn about not recommended approach to setting up the Jetty Distribution.
+ */
+public class HomeBaseWarning
+{
+ private static final Logger LOG = Log.getLogger(HomeBaseWarning.class);
+
+ public HomeBaseWarning()
+ {
+ boolean showWarn = false;
+
+ String home = System.getProperty("jetty.home");
+ String base = System.getProperty("jetty.base");
+
+ if (StringUtil.isBlank(base))
+ {
+ // no base defined? then we are likely running
+ // via direct command line.
+ return;
+ }
+
+ Path homePath = new File(home).toPath();
+ Path basePath = new File(base).toPath();
+
+ try
+ {
+ showWarn = Files.isSameFile(homePath,basePath);
+ }
+ catch (IOException e)
+ {
+ LOG.ignore(e);
+ // Can't definitively determine this state
+ return;
+ }
+
+ if (showWarn)
+ {
+ StringBuilder warn = new StringBuilder();
+ warn.append("This instance of Jetty is not running from a separate {jetty.base} directory");
+ warn.append(", this is not recommended. See documentation at http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/documentation/current/startup.html");
+ LOG.warn("{}",warn.toString());
+ }
+ }
+}