Basic Auth with Apache+Tomcat

2003-02-13 Thread Tim O'Donnell
Hi all, I was hoping someone here could confirm a suspicion of mine, as I've been unable to uncover a definitive answer searching other forums (web, javasoft forum, mailing list archives). I've setup Apache web server to perform basic auth against a webapp directory in tomcat. I'm using the jk

Re: Basic Auth with Apache+Tomcat

2003-02-13 Thread Tim O'Donnell
sure you can have Tomcat do the auth instead of Apache, and then you'll have access to the variable. Try checking the configuration file (web.xml) of the built-in admin servlet. It should contain an example of exactly what you want to do. -Jake - Original Message - From: Tim

Re: Basic Auth with Apache+Tomcat

2003-02-13 Thread Tim O'Donnell
Hi Jake, Thanks for the reply. It worked! I'm using jk (not jk2 or mod_jk) and it didn't work when I added request.tomcatAuthentication=false to the jk2.properties file, but I tried adding it to my ajp connector in server.xml, per your second suggestion, and that did the trick! I'd never heard