Apache authentication with WebApp connector

[Martin Stafford <ma...@spike.com.au>]

I'm trying to get configure a apache/tomcat server to use apache's

authentication for a tomcat web application. The webapp connector however

seems to bypass the tomcat authentication configuration.



The reason I'm trying to do this is that I would like to authenticate a

staging server so that only the customer can access it. I don't want to

modify the web.xml between stage and live as that would make publishing more

complex and using apache's authentication would let me do this.



If I remove the WebAppDeploy from the config below the authentication works

ok. It also doesn't matter which apache authentication module I use - still

happens.



Configuration:

Redhat 7.1

Tomcat 4

Apache 1.3.20

Sun JDK 1.3.1

Config File Extracts:

httpd.conf:

LoadModule pam_auth_module modules/mod_auth_pam.so

LoadModule webapp_module modules/mod_webapp.so

AddModule mod_auth_pam.c

AddModule mod_webapp.c

WebAppConnection stage.info info

WebAppConnection stage.company warp localhost:8050

NameVirtualHost 203.x.x.x

<VirtualHost 203.x.x.x>

ServerName www-stage.company.com

DocumentRoot '/u01/stage/company/webapps/www-stage.company.com/root'

CustomLog '/u01/stage/company/logs/kms.apache.log' common

<Directory />

AuthName "username/password"

AuthType Basic

Require group groupname

</Directory>

WebAppDeploy stage.company.www-stage stage.company /

WebAppDeploy stage.company.www-stage.manager stage.company /manager

</VirtualHost>

server.xml:

<Server port="8000" shutdown="SHUTDOWN" debug="0">

<Service name="stage.company.server">

<Connector className="org.apache.catalina.connector.warp.WarpConnector"

port="8050" minProcessors="5" maxProcessors="75" enableLookups="true"

acceptCount="10" debug="0"/>

<Connector className="org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpConnector"

port="8100" minProcessors="5" maxProcessors="75" acceptCount="10" debug="0"

connectionTimeout="60000"/>

<Engine className="org.apache.catalina.connector.warp.WarpEngine"

name="stage.company.engine" debug="0" defaultHost="www-stage.company.com">

<DefaultContext reloadable="true">

<Parameter name="serverType" value="stage" />

</DefaultContext>

<Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger"

prefix="catalina." suffix=".log" timestamp="true"/>

<Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.MemoryRealm"/>

<Host name="www-stage.company.com"

appBase="webapps/www-stage.company.com/root">

<Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger"

directory="logs" prefix="www-stage.tomcat." suffix=".log" timestamp="true"/>

<Context docBase="" path=""/>

<Context docBase="/usr/tomcat4/webapps/manager" path="/manager"/>

</Host>

</Engine>

</Service>

</Server>



Thanks,

Martin Stafford