Hello, I'm new to Tomcat and I need some help. I have to configure tomcat to authenticate users of a single web application against MySql Database tables of users and roles. Following Tomcat guide I made this steps:
1) Create users and roles table as described in tomcat guide and copping Connector/j jar to /CATALINA_HOME/common/lib. 2) Configure MysqlDB and table as DataSourceResource in the application context in /META-INF/context.xml 3) Define Datasource realm to use the Reosource 4) add in /WEB-INF/web.xml a <resource-ref> to the resource 5) add in /WEB-INF/web.xml <security-constraint>, <login-config> and <security-role> configuration 6) write login.jsp with the standard form action and fields The problem is that I could get the login page correctly whenever i try to request a protected page, but I always get the Error page even if I insert the right username/password. I've tried to reconfigure the DB resource as Global resource in server.xml (jdbc/PMSGlobal instead of jdbc/PMSRead) but I still get the same behaviour...I guess that non authentication ever happen.. These are my server.xml, context.xml and web.xml (sorry, auto comments are in english but the ones adde by myself are in italian :-/ ...) SERVER.XML: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- Example Server Configuration File --><!-- Note that component elements are nested corresponding to their parent-child relationships with each other --><!-- A "Server" is a singleton element that represents the entire JVM, which may contain one or more "Service" instances. The Server listens for a shutdown command on the indicated port. Note: A "Server" is not itself a "Container", so you may not define subcomponents such as "Valves" or "Loggers" at this level. --><Server port="8005" shutdown="SHUTDOWN" debug="0"> <!-- Comment these entries out to disable JMX MBeans support --> <!-- You may also configure custom components (e.g. Valves/Realms) by including your own mbean-descriptor file(s), and setting the "descriptors" attribute to point to a ';' seperated list of paths (in the ClassLoader sense) of files to add to the default list. e.g. descriptors="/com/myfirm/mypackage/mbean-descriptor.xml" --> <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.mbeans.ServerLifecycleListener" debug="0"/> <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.mbeans.GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener" debug="0"/> <!-- Global JNDI resources --> <GlobalNamingResources> <!-- Test entry for demonstration purposes --> <Environment name="simpleValue" type="java.lang.Integer" value="30"/> <!-- Editable user database that can also be used by UserDatabaseRealm to authenticate users --> <Resource name="UserDatabase" auth="Container" type="org.apache.catalina.UserDatabase" description="User database that can be updated and saved"> </Resource> <ResourceParams name="UserDatabase"> <parameter> <name>factory</name> <value>org.apache.catalina.users.MemoryUserDatabaseFactory</value> </parameter> <parameter> <name>pathname</name> <value>conf/tomcat-users.xml</value> </parameter> </ResourceParams> <Resource name="jdbc/PMSGlobal" auth="Container" type="javax.sql.DataSource" scope="Shareable"> </Resource> <ResourceParams name="jdbc/PMSGlobal"> <parameter> <name>factory</name> <value> org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory </value> </parameter> <!-- Don't set this any higher than max_connections on your MySQL server, usually this should be a 10 or a few 10's of connections, not hundreds or thousands --> <parameter> <name>maxActive</name> <value>10</value> </parameter> <!-- You don't want to many idle connections hanging around if you can avoid it, only enough to soak up a spike in the load --> <parameter> <name>maxIdle</name> <value>5</value> </parameter> <!-- Don't use autoReconnect=true, it's going away eventually and it's a crutch for older connection pools that couldn't test connections. You need to decide if your application is supposed to deal with SQLExceptions (hint, it should), and how much of a performance penalty you're willing to pay to ensure 'freshness' of the connection --> <parameter> <name>validationQuery</name> <value>SELECT 1</value> </parameter> <!-- The most conservative approach is to test connections before they're given to your application. For most applications this is okay, the query used above is very small and takes no real server resources to process, other than the time used to traverse the network. If you have a high-load application you'll need to rely on something else. --> <parameter> <name>testOnBorrow</name> <value>true</value> </parameter> <!-- Otherwise, or in addition to testOnBorrow, you can test while connections are sitting idle --> <parameter> <name>testWhileIdle</name> <value>true</value> </parameter> <!-- You have to set this value, otherwise even though you've asked connections to be tested while idle, the idle evicter thread will never run --> <parameter> <name>timeBetweenEvictionRunsMillis</name> <value>10000</value> </parameter> <!-- Don't allow connections to hang out idle too long, never longer than what wait_timeout is set to on the server...A few minutes or even fraction of a minute is sometimes okay here, it depends on your application and how much spikey load it will see --> <parameter> <name>minEvictableIdleTimeMillis</name> <value>60000</value> </parameter> <!-- Username and password used when connecting to MySQL --> <parameter> <name>username</name> <value>user</value> </parameter> <parameter> <name>password</name> <value>pass</value><!-- Aggioranre se viene cambiata nel DB --> </parameter> <!-- Class name for the Connector/J driver --> <parameter> <name>driverClassName</name> <value>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</value> </parameter> <!-- The JDBC connection url for connecting to MySQL, notice that if you want to pass any other MySQL-specific parameters you should pass them here in the URL, setting them using the parameter tags above will have no effect, you will also need to use & to separate parameter values as the ampersand is a reserved character in XML --> <parameter> <name>url</name> <value>jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/pms</value> </parameter> </ResourceParams> </GlobalNamingResources> <!-- A "Service" is a collection of one or more "Connectors" that share a single "Container" (and therefore the web applications visible within that Container). Normally, that Container is an "Engine", but this is not required. Note: A "Service" is not itself a "Container", so you may not define subcomponents such as "Valves" or "Loggers" at this level. --> <!-- Define the Tomcat Stand-Alone Service --> <Service name="Catalina"> <!-- A "Connector" represents an endpoint by which requests are received and responses are returned. Each Connector passes requests on to the associated "Container" (normally an Engine) for processing. By default, a non-SSL HTTP/1.1 Connector is established on port 8080. You can also enable an SSL HTTP/1.1 Connector on port 8443 by following the instructions below and uncommenting the second Connector entry. SSL support requires the following steps (see the SSL Config HOWTO in the Tomcat 5 documentation bundle for more detailed instructions): * If your JDK version 1.3 or prior, download and install JSSE 1.0.2 or later, and put the JAR files into "$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/ext". * Execute: %JAVA_HOME%\bin\keytool -genkey -alias tomcat -keyalg RSA (Windows) $JAVA_HOME/bin/keytool -genkey -alias tomcat -keyalg RSA (Unix) with a password value of "changeit" for both the certificate and the keystore itself. By default, DNS lookups are enabled when a web application calls request.getRemoteHost(). This can have an adverse impact on performance, so you can disable it by setting the "enableLookups" attribute to "false". When DNS lookups are disabled, request.getRemoteHost() will return the String version of the IP address of the remote client. --> <!-- Define a non-SSL Coyote HTTP/1.1 Connector on the port specified during installation --> <Connector port="8080" maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" maxSpareThreads="75" enableLookups="false" redirectPort="8443" acceptCount="100" debug="0" connectionTimeout="20000" disableUploadTimeout="true" compression="on"/> <!-- Note : To disable connection timeouts, set connectionTimeout value to 0 --> <!-- Note : To use gzip compression you could set the following properties : compression="on" compressionMinSize="2048" noCompressionUserAgents="gozilla, traviata" compressableMimeType="text/html,text/xml" --> <!-- Define a SSL Coyote HTTP/1.1 Connector on port 8443 --> <Connector port="8443" maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" maxSpareThreads="75" enableLookups="false" disableUploadTimeout="true" acceptCount="100" debug="0" scheme="https" secure="true" clientAuth="false" sslProtocol="TLS" compression="on"/> <!-- Define a Coyote/JK2 AJP 1.3 Connector on port 8009 --> <Connector port="8009" enableLookups="false" redirectPort="8443" debug="0" protocol="AJP/1.3"/> <!-- Define a Proxied HTTP/1.1 Connector on port 8082 --> <!-- See proxy documentation for more information about using this. --> <!-- <Connector port="8082" maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" maxSpareThreads="75" enableLookups="false" acceptCount="100" debug="0" connectionTimeout="20000" proxyPort="80" disableUploadTimeout="true" /> --> <!-- An Engine represents the entry point (within Catalina) that processes every request. The Engine implementation for Tomcat stand alone analyzes the HTTP headers included with the request, and passes them on to the appropriate Host (virtual host). --> <!-- You should set jvmRoute to support load-balancing via JK/JK2 ie : <Engine name="Standalone" defaultHost="localhost" debug="0" jvmRoute="jvm1"> --> <!-- Define the top level container in our container hierarchy --> <Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="localhost" debug="0"> <!-- The request dumper valve dumps useful debugging information about the request headers and cookies that were received, and the response headers and cookies that were sent, for all requests received by this instance of Tomcat. If you care only about requests to a particular virtual host, or a particular application, nest this element inside the corresponding <Host> or <Context> entry instead. For a similar mechanism that is portable to all Servlet 2.4 containers, check out the "RequestDumperFilter" Filter in the example application (the source for this filter may be found in "$CATALINA_HOME/webapps/examples/WEB-INF/classes/filters"). Request dumping is disabled by default. Uncomment the following element to enable it. --> <!-- <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RequestDumperValve"/> --> <!-- Global logger unless overridden at lower levels --> <Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger" prefix="catalina_log." suffix=".txt" timestamp="true"/> <!-- Because this Realm is here, an instance will be shared globally --> <!-- This Realm uses the UserDatabase configured in the global JNDI resources under the key "UserDatabase". Any edits that are performed against this UserDatabase are immediately available for use by the Realm. --> <Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.UserDatabaseRealm" debug="0" resourceName="UserDatabase"/> <!-- Comment out the old realm but leave here for now in case we need to go back quickly --> <!-- <Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.MemoryRealm" /> --> <!-- Replace the above Realm with one of the following to get a Realm stored in a database and accessed via JDBC --> <!-- <Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.JDBCRealm" debug="99" driverName="org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver" connectionURL="jdbc:mysql://localhost/authority" connectionName="test" connectionPassword="test" userTable="users" userNameCol="user_name" userCredCol="user_pass" userRoleTable="user_roles" roleNameCol="role_name" /> --> <!-- <Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.JDBCRealm" debug="99" driverName="oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver" connectionURL="jdbc:oracle:thin:@ntserver:1521:ORCL" connectionName="scott" connectionPassword="tiger" userTable="users" userNameCol="user_name" userCredCol="user_pass" userRoleTable="user_roles" roleNameCol="role_name" /> --> <!-- <Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.JDBCRealm" debug="99" driverName="sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver" connectionURL="jdbc:odbc:CATALINA" userTable="users" userNameCol="user_name" userCredCol="user_pass" userRoleTable="user_roles" roleNameCol="role_name" /> --> <!-- Define the default virtual host Note: XML Schema validation will not work with Xerces 2.2. --> <Host name="localhost" debug="0" appBase="webapps" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true" xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false"> <!-- Normally, users must authenticate themselves to each web app individually. Uncomment the following entry if you would like a user to be authenticated the first time they encounter a resource protected by a security constraint, and then have that user identity maintained across *all* web applications contained in this virtual host. --> <!-- <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.authenticator.SingleSignOn" debug="0"/> --> <!-- Access log processes all requests for this virtual host. By default, log files are created in the "logs" directory relative to $CATALINA_HOME. If you wish, you can specify a different directory with the "directory" attribute. Specify either a relative (to $CATALINA_HOME) or absolute path to the desired directory. --> <!-- <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" directory="logs" prefix="localhost_access_log." suffix=".txt" pattern="common" resolveHosts="false"/> --> <!-- Logger shared by all Contexts related to this virtual host. By default (when using FileLogger), log files are created in the "logs" directory relative to $CATALINA_HOME. If you wish, you can specify a different directory with the "directory" attribute. Specify either a relative (to $CATALINA_HOME) or absolute path to the desired directory.--> <Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger" directory="logs" prefix="localhost_log." suffix=".txt" timestamp="true"/></Host> </Engine> </Service> </Server> CONTEXT.XML <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- Definizione del contesto applicativo per l'applicazione web. in questo file sono specificate tutte le impostazioni specifiche di tomcat per l'applicazione --> <context docBase="/PMS" path="/PMS" override="true" relodable="true" directory="/logs/pms" debug="5" swallowOutput="true" useNaming="true"> <!-- Definisco un logger per l'applicazione --> <Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger" verbosity="3" directory="/log/pms" timestamp="true"> </Logger> <!-- registro mySQL come risorsa global --> <ResourceLink name="jdbc/PMSGlobal" type="javax.sql.DataSource" global="jdbc/PMSGlobal"/> <!-- Registro mysql come risorsa JNDI.Tomcat gestirà il pooling delle connessioni. Servono 3 risorse diverse a seconda dell'utente DB, (e quindi del suo livello di protezione) che accede a mySQL --> <Resource name="jdbc/PMSRead" auth="Container" type="javax.sql.DataSource" scope="Shareable"> </Resource> <ResourceParams name="jdbc/PMSRead"> <parameter> <name>factory</name> <value> org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory </value> </parameter> <!-- Don't set this any higher than max_connections on your MySQL server, usually this should be a 10 or a few 10's of connections, not hundreds or thousands --> <parameter> <name>maxActive</name> <value>10</value> </parameter> <!-- You don't want to many idle connections hanging around if you can avoid it, only enough to soak up a spike in the load --> <parameter> <name>maxIdle</name> <value>5</value> </parameter> <!-- Don't use autoReconnect=true, it's going away eventually and it's a crutch for older connection pools that couldn't test connections. You need to decide if your application is supposed to deal with SQLExceptions (hint, it should), and how much of a performance penalty you're willing to pay to ensure 'freshness' of the connection --> <parameter> <name>validationQuery</name> <value>SELECT 1</value> </parameter> <!-- The most conservative approach is to test connections before they're given to your application. For most applications this is okay, the query used above is very small and takes no real server resources to process, other than the time used to traverse the network. If you have a high-load application you'll need to rely on something else. --> <parameter> <name>testOnBorrow</name> <value>true</value> </parameter> <!-- Otherwise, or in addition to testOnBorrow, you can test while connections are sitting idle --> <parameter> <name>testWhileIdle</name> <value>true</value> </parameter> <!-- You have to set this value, otherwise even though you've asked connections to be tested while idle, the idle evicter thread will never run --> <parameter> <name>timeBetweenEvictionRunsMillis</name> <value>10000</value> </parameter> <!-- Don't allow connections to hang out idle too long, never longer than what wait_timeout is set to on the server...A few minutes or even fraction of a minute is sometimes okay here, it depends on your application and how much spikey load it will see --> <parameter> <name>minEvictableIdleTimeMillis</name> <value>60000</value> </parameter> <!-- Username and password used when connecting to MySQL --> <parameter> <name>username</name> <value>user</value> </parameter> <parameter> <name>password</name> <value>pass</value><!-- Aggioranre se viene cambiata nel DB --> </parameter> <!-- Class name for the Connector/J driver --> <parameter> <name>driverClassName</name> <value>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</value> </parameter> <!-- The JDBC connection url for connecting to MySQL, notice that if you want to pass any other MySQL-specific parameters you should pass them here in the URL, setting them using the parameter tags above will have no effect, you will also need to use & to separate parameter values as the ampersand is a reserved character in XML --> <parameter> <name>url</name> <value>jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/pms</value> </parameter> </ResourceParams> <!-- Definisco il Realm dell'applicazione per mapparsi sulle tabelle degli utenti e dei ruoli definita nel DB --> <Realm classname="org.apache.catalina.realm.DataSourceRealm" dataSourceName="java:comp/env/jdbc/PMSGlobal" debug="99" roleNameCol="role" userCredCol="password" userNameCol="username" userRoleTable="roles" userTable="users" /> <!-- <Realm classname="org.apache.catalina.realm.JDBCRealm" debug="99" driverName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" connectionURL="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/pms" connectionName="PMSREad" connectionPassword="read" userTable="users" userRoleTable="roles" userNameCol="username" userCredCol="password" roleNameCol="role"> </Realm> --> </context> WEB.XML: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <web-app id="WebApp_ID" version="2.4" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd"> <display-name>PSM</display-name> <welcome-file-list> <welcome-file>home.jsp</welcome-file> <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file> <welcome-file>default.jsp</welcome-file> </welcome-file-list> <!-- Definisco le reference al database Mysql --> <resource-ref> <description>PMS DBRead connection</description> <res-ref-name>jdbc/PMSRead</res-ref-name> <res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type> <res-sharing-scope>Shareable</res-sharing-scope> <res-auth>Container</res-auth> </resource-ref> <resource-ref> <description>PMS DBRead connection Global</description> <res-ref-name>java:comp/env/jdbc/PMSGlobal</res-ref-name> <res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type> <res-sharing-scope>Shareable</res-sharing-scope> <res-auth>Container</res-auth> </resource-ref> <!-- Sezione di gestione dell'accesso. l'autorizzazione è verificata utilizzando un'autenticazione basata su form --> <security-constraint> <web-resource-collection> <web-resource-name>Entire Application</web-resource-name> <description> L'accesso è consentito solo agli utenti autorizzati </description> <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern><!-- Tutti i file dell'applicazione --> </web-resource-collection> <auth-constraint> <description> Questi sono i ruoli che hanno accesso al sito </description> <role-name>root</role-name> </auth-constraint> <!-- seleziona la forma di sicureza a livello di trasporto dati: NONE = nessuna CONFIDENTIAL o INTEGRAL = SSL Tunnel --> <user-data-constraint> <!-- dovrà essere almeno CONFIDENTIAL se non INTEGRAL.. --> <transport-guarantee>NONE</transport-guarantee> </user-data-constraint> </security-constraint> <!-- login via Form Authentication --> <login-config> <auth-method>FORM</auth-method> <form-login-config> <form-login-page>/login.jsp</form-login-page> <form-error-page> /ErrorPages/loginError.jsp </form-error-page> </form-login-config> </login-config> <!-- <login-config> <auth-method>BASIC</auth-method> </login-config> --> <!-- Ruoli ammessi ad accedere al sito --> <security-role> <description>Administrator </description> <role-name>root</role-name> </security-role> </web-app> I'm using tomcat 5.0.28, MySql 5, Connector/J 3.1.12, java 1.4.2_08 SDK and Eclipse with Web plugins Please Help me! 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