My steps to get jspwiki-2.10.1-rc1 running with container managed auth: explode the war to /projekte/jspwiki-2.10.1-rc1/JSPWiki
add /projekte/apache-tomcat-8.0.8/conf/Catalina/localhost/JSPWiki.xml <Context path="/JSPWiki" docBase="/projekte/jspwiki-2.10.1-rc1/JSPWiki"> </Context> change /projekte/apache-tomcat-8.0.8/conf/server.xml <role rolename="Authenticated"/> <role rolename="Admin"/> <user username="tomcat" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat, Admin, Authenticated"/> in web.xml enabled CONTAINER-MANAGED AUTHENTICATION & AUTHORIZATION and removed all annoying and useless (JSPWIKI-212): <user-data-constraint> <transport-guarantee>CONFIDENTIAL</transport-guarantee> </user-data-constraint> There should be a jspwiki-custom.properties.template in the war. I used this for /projekte/apache-tomcat-8.0.8/lib/jspwiki-custom.properties jspwiki.applicationName = JSPWiki jspwiki.baseURL=http://linda:8080/JSPWiki jspwiki.urlConstructor = ShortViewURLConstructor jspwiki.pageProvider = VersioningFileProvider jspwiki.fileSystemProvider.pageDir = /projekte/jspwiki-2.10.1-rc1/wikipages jspwiki.basicAttachmentProvider.storageDir = /projekte/jspwiki-2.10.1-rc1/wikipages # log4j.appender.FileLog = org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender log4j.appender.FileLog.MaxFileSize = 10MB log4j.appender.FileLog.MaxBackupIndex = 14 log4j.appender.FileLog.File = /projekte/jspwiki-2.10.1-rc1/jspwiki.log