Sun AppServer 9.0 Update 1 on Solaris not supporting form-based auth
Ok, I installed Appserver 9 on a Solaris box and then started up the default domain1. When I point the browser to http://localhost:4848 I am not pointed to the login page for the admingui, it just bypasses the authentication and I am allowed to perform all admin actions without logging in. I then deployed a custom web application that uses form-based authentication that works correctly on Sun Appserver 8.1. However it behaves the same way as the admingui application (I am not presented with a login page). After setting some of the log levels to FINEST and looking at the logs it appears that when these requests are coming in they are not matching any constraint (but the constraints are defined in the web.xml). Installing Appserver 9 on a win2k box does not have this issue. Has anyone else seen this problem? Is there some security setting that is not turned on by default from the solaris install?
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wonxly] at [2007-11-26 11:47:39]
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Ok if anyone is interested I was able to fix my problem. It looks like the issue is the version of java used with Appserver 9 on Solaris. The latest version of java i have on the machine is Java 1.5.0_06, but everytime I try to install the Appserver with this version it hangs at 39% into the installation. The next latest version of Java i have on the machine is 1.5.0_02, so that is the version I was using to install and the install works perfectly. However, after the install the form-based authentication does not work with this version of Java on Solaris.
They way I fixed this was to modify the asenv.conf file in the Appserver_Install dirrectory to point to the Java 1.5.0_06 installation and started the domain, now the form-based authentication is working as expected.
I guess my question now is does anyone know why I can't install the server with Java 1.5.0_06? But it looks like I need that version to actually run things correctly.
