You need to add j_security_check to the URIs that get passed to Tomcat. I don't use Jk2 myself, but if your version is recent enough, I believe that you can even use: /*/j_security_check ajp13
If I'm wrong (and that doesn't work), simply put the full path to j_security_check. "Louise Pryor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi > > I'm having a problem using form-based authentication. It all works > fine with standalone Tomcat, but goes pear shaped on Apache with > Tomcat. It seems to be the same problem that is described in > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg43091.html > (but I think it's more a Tomcat thing than a struts thing). > > Basically, I'm using the securityfilter filter from > http://www.securityfilter.org/. I have a login.jsp that submits a form > to j_security_check in the usual way. The only trouble is that Apache > comes back with an Apache 404 on /path-to-login.jsp/j_security_check. It is > clearly not passing j_security_check through to Tomcat to handle. > > The URL at the top of this message suggests passing all requests > through to Tomcat (at least I think that's what it means - it uses > mod_jk, and I'm using mod_jk2, which I'm not totally expert at > anyway). First, that doesn't seem to work for me, and second, although > I could configure things that way on my local setup it's not a > realistic option for deployment, where I'm on a shared server. > > The support guy at my hosting service suggested making the target of > the form /servlet/j_security_check, which at least gets it through to > Tomcat --- which then gives me a 404. Obviously this is right, because > I have no servlet mapping that would pick it up. > > So is there a way of defining a servlet mapping (or indeed any other > element in web.xml) that would push things through to the right place? > > Alternatively is there any way of doing this programmatically? Could I > send the form into a servlet which could then forward or redirect to > j_security_check directly, without going through Apache? If so, how? > > Thanks for any help on this. > > -- > Louise Pryor > http://www.louisepryor.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
