I am about to deploy a struts app in production. I have been doing development using port 8080 and a Context path of "/aup-reports" and a docPath of "aup-reports". My app uses BASIC authentication with a JDBC Realm into postgres. Everything works fine in this configuration with 4.1.24 and 4.1.27 and jdk 1.4.2.
However, when a try to make my app the default Context by setting the context path to "" (and keep docPath to "/aup-reports") I am seeing strange behavior from the authentication module. When the app first comes up I get the authentication prompt, I log in and I see that the authentication is successful and that my index.jsp is accessed because there is a new log message in Catalina.out. But I don't see my index.jsp in the browser and the login prompt comes up immediately again. I attempt to login again and the prompt comes back again. It comes back continuously !?!?. If I hit escape about 15 times it allows me to see my index.jsp but the formatting is a mess and if I attempt to access any links the $%^& login prompt comes up again. Any one might be going on?? What is the best way to transition from a dev conf to a production conf? Joe