Unexpected error forwarding to login page on securing jmx-console
walnut Aug 12, 2011 7:47 AMhi all,
running GateIn-3.1.0-GA in JBossAS-5.1.0-GA.
I am trying to secure the jmx-console with a security domain,
so i uncommented:
- <security-constraint> block in web.xml
- <security-domain> in jboss-web.xml
all settings are left with default values (see attachments), but the browser just shows a blank page and the log output is as below.
Please, help. Thanks in advance.
10:24:47,799 WARN [FormAuthenticator] Unexpected error forwarding to login page java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.FormAuthenticator.forwardToLoginPage(FormAuthenticator.java:316) at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.FormAuthenticator.authenticate(FormAuthenticator.java:244) at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:491) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.JaccContextValve.invoke(JaccContextValve.java:92) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.process(SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.java:126) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.invoke(SecurityContextEstablishmentValve.java:70) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102) at org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.jca.CachedConnectionValve.invoke(CachedConnectionValve.java:158) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:330) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:829) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:598) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:447) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
EDIT: made same changes in new&clean installation of GateIn/JBoss, and it works! But still interested why the exception and how to solve it
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login-config.xml 7.5 KB
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web.xml 4.6 KB
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jboss-web.xml 409 bytes