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How to change the read/write permission of SQLite database on windows?

I created a software using NetBeans and SQLite database. When I clean and build, the executable jar file and database work fine. It can read and write data from the database.
Then I created .exe file using "install creator" and after installing the software, the same dist folder is created in Program files on my Windows PC. When I run the executable jar file from that dist folder, it can only read the database, but can't write. I get this message
java.sql.SQLException:attempt to write a readonly database
Can anyone please help me solve this problem? Thanks in advance.

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The problem, as it turns out, is that the PDO SQLite driver requires that if you are going to do a write operation (INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE,DROP, etc), then the folder the database resides in must have write permissions, as well as the actual database file.
I found this information in a comment at the very bottom of the PDO SQLite driver manual page.

You should write the user specific data to the Application Data folder of current user.
You can get the ROAMING directory from
String path = System.getenv("APPDATA");
Or if you want to make it platform independent you can use getProperty which will give you users home directory and then you can write to specific directory:
String path = System.getProperty("user.home");
You can form the sqlite on path like
String sqliteUrl = "jdbc:sqlite:"+path+"sample.db";

Use this code line:
Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.CommonApplicationData) + "\\databasefile.db"
I can say this is the proper way of creating DB in application folder on to the drive like C:\ without permission

Use this code line:
Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.CommonApplicationData) + "\\Yourfile.db"
I can say this is the proper way of crating DB without permission on to the drive like C:\

Storing configuration file of an application in OS independent path

I am writing an application (basically eclipse plugin), so there are few combo-box, drop-downs etc, which I am getting values for them dynamically via XML file. My doubt is which is the best way to store these files in a particular directory so that it can be read in both Windows as well as Linux.
Initially I tried to create a config path under {eclipse.home.location} like:
String finalPath = System.getProperty("eclipse.home.location") +"/myAppConfig";
and store all of my plugin's configuration there (not only configuration but few helper jars which I programatically read in my plugin). But there is a probabilty that Eclipse installation maybe in shared location and user may not have write access to it.
I also tried to store it in a program files directory using:
System.getenv("ProgramFiles");
But this fails under non-windows environments. So my question is can anyone shed a light on this so that I can store in some common directory where it is valid for both windows and linux?
Kindly let me know if my wordings are confusing. Or is it possible to store my config files under plugins directory and get the path like this /plugins/myConfigDir ?

Try using the getStateLocation() method in Plugin.
That will give you an IPath that points to a user specific workspace location.

Do we need seperate file path for window and linux in java

I have a file on linux ubuntu server hosted with path name /home/kishor/project/detail/.
When I made a web app in window to upload and download file from specified location i used path "c:\kishor\projects\detail\" for saving in window.
For my surprise when i used window file path name in my server i am still able to get files and upload them, i.e, "c:\kishor\projects\detail\".
Can anyone explain why it is working (as window and linux both use different file path pattern).

I've seen this work too. What linux does is create a file whose name is literally c:\kishor\projects\detail\

If you say, you can "upload" files... perhaps there is now a new folder structure.
Some months ago i saw a similar thing: Under /home/webadmin was an new structure "/c:/Users/...."

Java: Where to write config without requiring administrative rights

I actually can't believe I'm saying this but since porting my programs to OSX and getting used to permissions, I've realized that what I planned to do on Windows will not work how I want it to. Currently, on windows, my program stores it's setting's in the registry (HKLM) and some user editable resources in a folder next to the program file. For various reasons, I have now decided that the configuration/settings will be stored in a file and the user will be able to in which folder the other resources are kept.
So the question I have now is where to store the configuration file. Obviously it will be updated, but I don't want to program to have to require administrator permissions to run. I would like to offer an option so that all users can use the program (like most programs do), which will of course require Admin, so this leads be onto the second query: where should I store the configuration file (and the folder in which other resources are kept) and how can I detect whether the program has been installed for all users or just one!
Thanks in advance
PS If you didn't guess, the program is written in Java so I would like to know how to programatically get the location you suggest as well please.

Its normal practice in *nix compatible programs to store information in folders starting with name . in the home directory of the users like,
.bash_history
.bashrc
You could use the same on OSX in my opinion and create a directory say,
.myapp
You can store any number of files with any format under that directory.
To get the location of the folder, you can do
String homeDir = System.getProperty("user.home");
File myAppDir = new File(homeDir, ".myapp");
That is roughly the code that can get you your custom config directory for your app.
Please not that dot files / folders are somewhat similar to hidden folders in windows. Your File Manager will not generally show these files / folders by default.
To identify if the program is installed for all the users or not, you could create the configuration at some administrator (root) controlled location like /etc (not sure about Mac) The user configuration can always override the default config. There could be a better way to handle this though.

On both windows and unix, User(usually) has a (home)folder to which it has full permissions. You may create a directory in the home folder and have your user configuration files reside there.

how to read geolitecity file path from linux server?

My development environment is windows, using JSP,Apache server 5.5. I developed an application with the help of geolitecity provided by MaxMind. I have uploaded geolitecity.dat into my server in the same folder of my website(I dont know its the correct procedure, I am doing it first time).And I used
String systemPath=new java.io.File(".").getCanonicalPath();
to get the current directory path, so that I can read from it. But I am not getting the full path. am only getting upto tomcat5.5.3\bin. Is it possible to read the file with this path? I dont have much knowledge in linux.

In Servlet/JSP:
String path = getServletContext().getRealPath("/yourfilename.txt");
This will give you complete path of given file name.
Note: It will work when you will deploy it in tomcat and run from out side eclipse. As eclipse has its own internal structure when it deploy the web application [if not changed].