> From: Charl Gerber [mailto:charlger...@yahoo.com] > Subject: Configuring a Realm
> I know I somehow have to configure the <login-config> > to use my new Realm, but how? No, you don't, other than to indicate the authentication mechanism. The presence of the <Realm> element inside your webapp's <Context> should be sufficient to cause Tomcat to use it. > There is a tag <realm-name> which looked to be my answer The <realm-name> here is not related to the configured <Realm>, at least for BASIC authentication; as I recall it's used primarily for DIGEST authentication to construct the hash key. > The datasource works and can be tested from within the > application, so it is set up correctly. Are you using the same database for both application usage and authentication? That's odd, but doable. > The application's context.xml: Where is the context.xml file located? > <Context path="/rankings" > docBase="path.to.file/rankings.war" If the context.xml file is in the webapp's META-INF directory, the path and docBase attributes are not allowed - remove them. Is there a conf/Catalina/[host]/rankings.xml file present? If so, it will override the context.xml in META-INF, meaning your <Realm> element will be ignored. Is there anything in the Tomcat logs pertinent to the use of the <Realm>? - Chuck THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its attachments from all computers. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
