Hi All, I am having tremendous difficulty configuring contexts on tomcat. I've had to split my perfectly working application into two applications as the jsp now requires Form based authentication and the XML components require Http Basic authentication as before. As I've learned the very hard way I cannot do both within the same application without writing my own security plumbing. So I've taken peoples advice and made one war file formauth.war with all jsp and related servlets which uses form based auth and also created basicauth.war which contains all xml servlet configuration, I put the common libs into tomcat/lib directory (to handle Statics and singletons and DB stuff) Two apps, two authentication mechanisms. Messy but I could see no other way.
My jsps etc are contained on the path /secure/xxx and /secure/yyy as well as /public/* But my XML URL pattern for servlets is /secure/xml/* and /xml/* which are declared in web.xml Individually each war when deployed seem to work fine except for the uri/path configuration. i.e. URL prepended with /formauth/ or /basicauth/ prefixes. Currently this works: /formauth/secure/yyy -->Form based auth /formauth/secure/xxx -->Form based auth /formauth/public/ -->Form based auth /basicauth/secure/xml/ -->basic auth /basicauth/xml/ -->basic auth etc. Which is not what I want, the application must work as before. /secure/yyy -->Form based auth /secure/xxx -->Form based auth /public/ -->Form based auth /secure/xml/ -->basic auth /xml/ -->basic auth I need to remove the /formauth/ and /basicauth/ directories and my pain will subside. From everything that I have read this SHOULD be possible when configuring the context element. My issue now is that trying to overlap the contexts will not work for me. I can only get one war to work at at time (as default context) using Server.xml <Context docBase="formauth" path=""/> when war is deployed in the webapps folder. I have tried <Context docBase="formauth" path="secure/xxx"/> and many different combinations but I can never remove the /formauth/ or /basicauth/ prefixes except when one is set as default, but then I cannot configure the other context. A little advice here should go a long way as I've read http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/context.html and related pages and posts about a fifty times as well as sample setups. I'm really pulling my hair out now.....this is taking me waaaaaay too long. There are many brownie points going for this one. Tony --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
