Slide 2.0 on WebSphere

[Mihir Solanki <mi...@patni.com>]

Hi all,
 
This question is already pointed out two three times that whether it is
possible
to deploy slide binary version 2.0 on WAS 5.0 version successfully or
not?
 
I have installed the slide.war file in the WAS version 5.0 and I can
connect through
network place also. (i.e. http://localhost:9080/slide). But when I try
to open any of the
directory (say "users" or "files") it is not opening properly. Even if I
try to put any file
or try to create a folder it is giving "Forbidden" error.
 
One thing that I have noticed is when I have deployed the slide.war file
in WAS 5.0 
and opened web.xml file WAS is showing errors on the WebDAV methods
(i.e. PUT, PROPFIND etc..)
 
So anybody please help us (who all are need to do this) to port the
slide.war file successfully
on WAS 5.0 version.
 
Also I would like to have an authentication ON (not slide authentication
but basic HTTP authentication)
So please provide some help on this.
 
Regards,
Mihir
Sr. Software Engineer
SBU: eBiz, Gandhinagar
 
"Imaginations... its limits are only those of the mind itself"
 

Re: Slide 2.0 on WebSphere

[James Mason <ma...@apache.org>]

 From what I've seen of the WebSphere related traffic so far it has all 
related to authentication problems. I only have a small amount of 
experience with WebSphere, and none of it was dealing with security 
setup, so I can only give you general info here.

Slide doesn't handle any authentication itself. All authentication is 
handled by the application server. The application is responsible for 
verifying the identity of a user and assigning that user to the 
appropriate roles. The Slide webapp then tells the application server 
which roles it requires a user to have in order to access the webapp. 
This is done in the web.xml file. By default Slide is configured to 
require one of "root", "user" or "guest". Note that these roles are in 
NO WAY associated with the /roles/root, /roles/user and /roles/guest 
nodes in Slide. Those nodes are used internally by Slide for 
authorization, so don't be confused.

The problem is most likely that WebSphere doesn't have the roles that 
the Slide webapp is looking for. If you've already got roles defined for 
another webapp you can modify Slide's web.xml to require those roles to 
access Slide, or you can configure WebSphere so that it has the roles 
Slide is looking for.

Configuring WebSphere is going to be a murky area in these instructions 
;). Slide provides a Realm implementation for Tomcat that lets Tomcat 
determine username:password pairs and role membership using the /users/* 
and /roles/* nodes (I know I said the two aren't related, and they 
aren't, but this Realm creates an exception and connects the two). The 
Slide/Tomcat bundles are configured to use the Realm. It may be possible 
to use the Realm for WebSphere, but I kinda doubt it.

Slide also provides a JAAS module. I've never used it, and I've never 
worked with JAAS, but the module does the same thing the Tomcat Realm 
does (exposes the /users/* and /roles/* nodes to the application server 
to use for authentication). You may have luck with this. There are 
Tomcat specific instructions for using the module on the Slide website. 
You'll have to interpret them for working with WebSphere.

The other option is to manually create roles in WebSphere and handle 
user/role membership externally somehow. In Tomcat this can be done 
using a tomcat-users.xml file, or through LDAP or several other Realm 
implementations. WebSphere will have something similar. If you go this 
route I'd recommend just creating a single role that all users with 
access to the system will have (rather then seperate root, user, guest 
roles) then do finer grained permissioning inside of Slide.

Hope this helps.

-James

Mihir Solanki wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>  
> 
> This question is already pointed out two three times that whether it is 
> possible
> 
> to deploy slide binary version 2.0 on WAS 5.0 version successfully or not?
> 
>  
> 
> I have installed the slide.war file in the WAS version 5.0 and I can 
> connect through
> 
> network place also. (i.e. http://localhost:9080/slide). But when I try 
> to open any of the
> 
> directory (say “users” or “files”) it is not opening properly. Even if I 
> try to put any file
> 
> or try to create a folder it is giving “Forbidden” error.
> 
>  
> 
> One thing that I have noticed is when I have deployed the slide.war file 
> in WAS 5.0
> 
> and opened web.xml file WAS is showing errors on the WebDAV methods 
> (i.e. PUT, PROPFIND etc..)
> 
>  
> 
> So anybody please help us (who all are need to do this) to port the 
> slide.war file successfully
> 
> on WAS 5.0 version.
> 
>  
> 
> Also I would like to have an authentication ON (not slide authentication 
> but basic HTTP authentication)
> 
> So please provide some help on this…
> 
>  
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mihir
> 
> *Sr. Software Engineer*
> 
> *SBU: eBiz, Gandhinagar*
> 
> * *
> 
> /"Imaginations... its limits are only those of the mind itself"/
> 
>  
> 
> 
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