Why would you want separate webapps for this? Why not one webapp, one login page, and then one (or more) screens with content created dynamically based on the login ID?
> -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Hills [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 12:39 AM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: Multiple Webbapps, single login.jsp?? > > Hi Mark, > > On 30 Dec 2005 at 13:12, Mark Thomas wrote: > > > Rob Hills wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > In July 2004, Jonathan asked the question above and described my > > > problem exactly: > > > > > > "Is it possible to use a single login.jsp for multiple webapps? > > > > Yes and no. You only have to write it once but it must be deployed > > with each webapp. You should be able to use your source > control system > > and/or your build script to use the same files in multiple apps. > > > > You might be able to do something with SSO and a webapp that only > > exists to provide authentication and a filter that redirects to the > > authentication webapp if required but this is essentially a more > > complex version of form authentication and getting all use cases > > working correctly is going to be much more work than a few > lines in a > > build script. > > Thanks for the info. I was actually hoping to avoid all that > as what I am setting up is a URL for clients to view website > statistics. The stats are automatically generated as static > html files. The plan was to keep it all simple by having a > single site with a single login page and a context for each > client's stats. Our staff could log in to the root context > and navigate to any of the contexts, but each client would > only be able to get to the stats for their own site by being > constrained to their own context. > > I guess the easiest way is going to be either to copy, or > symlink the login.jsp to each context :-( The alternative > will be to write something more complex based on a root-level > login.jsp and some sort of redirection based on username - > complexity I was hoping to avoid. > > Rob Hills > Waikiki > Western Australia > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
