Tomcat with more than one Applications in WEBAPPS folder

[carina caoor]

Hi i have an application in the tomcat webapps folder which authorises using FORM based Authentication and i added the username and roles in the tomcat-users.xml file and the container authenticates and authorises the user logged in. Now i am adding another application in the webapps folder which works using JDBC realm where i created tables containig username and password and roles in oracle database, after i configure my server.xml file so that the new application uses these tables to authenticate and authorise users , will this effect my old application how will the container recognise this new application is to be work using JDBC realm and the old one to work with memory realm?

[Ulf Dittmer]

The Tomcat docs indicate that it is possible to set up realms per context (by nesting the Realm element inside of the Context element). Have you tried that?

(Note that the default configuration of server.xml has a Realm element inside the Engine element, which will cause all web apps to use the same Realm; you'll need to change that.)

[carina caoor]

I changed my server.xml and added the realm in the context element under the engine element

  

  <Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="localhost">
....

 <Context path="/BillingSystem" debug="0" privileged="true" docBase="server/webapps/BillingSystem">
	
      <Realm  className="org.apache.catalina.realm.JDBCRealm"
             driverName="oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver"
          connectionURL="jdbc:oracle:thin:@moasrv07:1521:ccbuat"
         connectionName="cisadm" connectionPassword="cisadm"
              userTable="cm_BillSys_Users" userNameCol="user_name" userCredCol="user_pass"
          userRoleTable="cm_BillSys_Users_roles " roleNameCol="role_name" />


   
	</Context> 

</Engine>

My Application URL is http://localhost:8080/BillingSystem


and in the web.xml i added

<web-app>
 
 <security-constraint>
        <web-resource-collection>
            <web-resource-name>secure</web-resource-name>
            <url-pattern>/billsys/*</url-pattern>
            
        </web-resource-collection>
        <auth-constraint>
        	<role-name>admin</role-name>
            <role-name>readonly</role-name>
            
        </auth-constraint>
         <user-data-constraint>
        
      </user-data-constraint>
          
    </security-constraint>
    
     <security-role>
        <role-name>readonly</role-name>
        <role-name>admin</role-name>
		
    </security-role>
     
    <login-config>
     <auth-method>FORM</auth-method>
      <form-login-config> 
      <form-login-page>/login.html</form-login-page>
      <form-error-page>/errorpage.html</form-error-page> 
      </form-login-config> 
     </login-config> 


  

And my login.html contains

<FORM METHOD=POST ACTION=j_security_check name="homeform">                      
<CENTER>   
     <label ID=uname >User Name</label>
     <input  ID=inputuname  type="text" NAME="j_username" ><BR>
     <label ID=password >Password</label>
     <input  ID=inputpassword  type="password" NAME="j_password" >
	     <input type=submit value="LogOn" ID=logon>	
 </FORM>  

Now when i click the login button without providing the username and password the control does not goes to the error.html file ... Also i want to know that the configuration of the realm for the context is correct or i am missing out something.

[Tim Holloway]

My login/loginfail pages are JSPs, not HTML.

[carina caoor]

But in the other application i used it as html and it worked fine....

[Tim Holloway]

Well, the other thing I do is define the realm in each context. A quick re-read of your initial message gives me the impression that you're activating 2 different realms at the server engine level and expecting magic to connect the right webapp to the right realm. There isn't any magic, so you'd need to define the realm for the context of the webapp rather than in server.xml.

[carina caoor]

define the realm for the context of the webapp rather than in server.xml.



How do i do this stuffing the Context element in the Engine element and giving the path of the application is not enough where am i breaking the link?

 

 <Context path="/BillingSystem" debug="0" privileged="true" docBase="server/webapps/BillingSystem">   
       
      <Realm  className="org.apache.catalina.realm.JDBCRealm"  
             driverName="oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver"  
          connectionURL="jdbc:oracle:thin:@moasrv07:1521:ccbuat"  
         connectionName="cisadm" connectionPassword="cisadm"  
              userTable="cm_BillSys_Users" userNameCol="user_name" userCredCol="user_pass"  
          userRoleTable="cm_BillSys_Users_roles " roleNameCol="role_name" />   
  
  
      
    </Context>    
  

[Tim Holloway]

<!--
    
    Context configuration file for the sandbox web app.
    
    $Id: jta.xml,v 1.4 2008/11/22 14:03:59 timh Exp $
    
-->
<Context path="/jta"
    docBase="/home/timh/workspace/jtaonthemove/target/jtaonthemove"
    debug="0" privileged="true"
>
   <Resource name="jdbc/jtaDS" auth="Container"
        type="javax.sql.DataSource" maxActive="100" maxIdle="30"
        maxWait="10000" username="user" password="secret"
        driverClassName="org.postgresql.Driver"
        url="jdbc:postgresql://dbserver/jtaonthemove"
    />
</Context>

This is all there is. Nothing in server.xml, nothing under Engine. I just put this file under the name TOMCAT_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost/jtaonthemove.xml

[carina caoor]

My application name is BillingSystem and it is under

C:\Tomcat 5.5\webapps\BillingSystem

Now i created a file called BillingSystem.xml and its path is C:\Tomcat 5.5\conf\catalina\localhost\BillingSystem.xml

Now can you please tell me what values should Context path,docbase and Resource name should contain

the file BillingSystem.xml contains

   

 <Context path="/BillingSystem" debug="0" privileged="true" docBase="Tomcat 5.5/webapps/BillingSystem">
	
      <Realm  className="org.apache.catalina.realm.JDBCRealm"
             driverName="oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver"
          connectionURL="jdbc:oracle:thin:@moasrv07:1521:ccbuat"
         connectionName="cisadm" connectionPassword="cisadm"
              userTable="cm_BillSys_Users" userNameCol="user_name" userCredCol="user_pass"
          userRoleTable="cm_BillSys_Users_roles " roleNameCol="role_name" />


   
	</Context> 

 

[carina caoor]

Context element with realm placed inside Engine element in server.xml file should work i dont no where am i doing wrong