Never mind. I uninstalled all my apps, cleaned up the temp/work dirs and re-installed and now it goes well. Must have been an incorrect context.xml in one of those dirs that I've missed.
Charl --- On Tue, 6/1/09, Caldarale, Charles R <chuck.caldar...@unisys.com> wrote: > From: Caldarale, Charles R <chuck.caldar...@unisys.com> > Subject: RE: Configuring a Realm > To: "Tomcat Users List" <users@tomcat.apache.org> > Date: Tuesday, 6 January, 2009, 4:21 PM > > From: Charl Gerber [mailto:charlger...@yahoo.com] > > Subject: Configuring a Realm > > > I know I somehow have to configure the > <login-config> > > to use my new Realm, but how? > > No, you don't, other than to indicate the > authentication mechanism. The presence of the <Realm> > element inside your webapp's <Context> should be > sufficient to cause Tomcat to use it. > > > There is a tag <realm-name> which looked to be > my answer > > The <realm-name> here is not related to the > configured <Realm>, at least for BASIC authentication; > as I recall it's used primarily for DIGEST > authentication to construct the hash key. > > > The datasource works and can be tested from within the > > application, so it is set up correctly. > > Are you using the same database for both application usage > and authentication? That's odd, but doable. > > > The application's context.xml: > > Where is the context.xml file located? > > > <Context path="/rankings" > > docBase="path.to.file/rankings.war" > > If the context.xml file is in the webapp's META-INF > directory, the path and docBase attributes are not allowed - > remove them. > > Is there a conf/Catalina/[host]/rankings.xml file present? > If so, it will override the context.xml in META-INF, meaning > your <Realm> element will be ignored. > > Is there anything in the Tomcat logs pertinent to the use > of the <Realm>? > > - Chuck > > > THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR > OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus for use only by > the intended recipient. If you received this in error, > please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its > attachments from all computers. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: > users-h...@tomcat.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
