Form Authentication through Apache

[Yasunari Sato <sa...@end.nk-exa.co.jp>]

It seems to work well that user authenticate 
by form based authentication in stand alone tomcat service.
But when I integrate apache and tomcat, authentication doesn't work.
I ckecked that Servlets which does not require 
authentication works well. 

Is there a special configuration to enable 
form based authentication on apache-tomcat 
integrated environment?

My test environment:
WinNT, apache1.3, tomcat3.2b6

Thanks,

Yasunari Sato

Re: Form Authentication through Apache

["Craig R. McClanahan" <Cr...@eng.sun.com>]

Yasunari Sato wrote:

> It seems to work well that user authenticate
> by form based authentication in stand alone tomcat service.
> But when I integrate apache and tomcat, authentication doesn't work.
> I ckecked that Servlets which does not require
> authentication works well.
>
> Is there a special configuration to enable
> form based authentication on apache-tomcat
> integrated environment?
>

The Apache connector does not know anything about what is in your web.xml file,
so it doesn't know about your security constraints that ask for authentication.
You will have to use standard Apache facilities to configure valid users.

In Tomcat 4.0, this will not be the case -- the web connector will be configured
from the contents of the web.xml file.

>
> My test environment:
> WinNT, apache1.3, tomcat3.2b6
>
> Thanks,
>
> Yasunari Sato

Craig McClanahan