Help!! Deployment issue

[Joe Zendle <jo...@vericept.com>]

I am about to deploy a struts app in production. I have been doing
development using port 8080 and a Context path of "/aup-reports" and a
docPath of "aup-reports". My app uses BASIC authentication with a JDBC
Realm into postgres. Everything works fine in this configuration with
4.1.24 and 4.1.27 and jdk 1.4.2.

 

However, when a try to make my app the default Context by setting the
context path to "" (and keep docPath to "/aup-reports") I am seeing
strange behavior from the authentication module. When the app first
comes up I get the authentication prompt, I log in and I see that the
authentication is successful and that my index.jsp is accessed because
there is a new log message in Catalina.out. But I don't see my index.jsp
in the browser and the login prompt comes up immediately again. I
attempt to login again and the prompt comes back again. It comes back
continuously !?!?. If I hit escape about 15 times it allows me to see my
index.jsp but the formatting is a mess and if I attempt to access any
links the $%^& login prompt comes up again.  

 

Any one might be going on?? What is the best way to transition from a
dev conf to a production conf?

 

Joe