2 Replies Latest reply on Oct 8, 2008 3:31 AM by tjdecke

Apache fronting Portal (SSO issues)

tjdecke Oct 7, 2008 2:17 PM

Hi guys,

i'm fronting my JBoss Portal with an Apache2 Webserver via AJP. I'm now trying to use mod_jk to do Authentication of the user. My first problem was that the authentication took place but the getRemoteUser() method always returned null.

After some googling I read that i should set tomcatAuthentication="false" in the AJP connector configuration. When I do that, both authentication and auto-login work fine for the first request, but whenever I click on a link outside of a Portlet (Admin, Home, Dashboard, whatever) I get 403 errors.

Any explanations, ideas and workarounds would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

Regards,
Tom

1. Re: Apache fronting Portal (SSO issues)

psevestre Oct 7, 2008 4:17 PM (in response to tjdecke)

Just guesswork, but did you check the domain/path used by your SSO solution ?

Also, you may need to enable cross-context authentication in tomcat, despite the tomcatAuthentication setting.
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2. Re: Apache fronting Portal (SSO issues)

tjdecke Oct 8, 2008 3:31 AM (in response to tjdecke)

SSO itself works perfectly fine, the REMOTE_USER variable just isn't sent to JBoss and if it is (tomcatAuthentication=false) then JBoss Portal throws 403-errors when accessing any page.
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