Basic Authentication, how to make it work?

Question

Your input will be highly appreciated.
I am trying to make http basic authentication work in BEA Weblogic, and I am using
'examplesWebApp' as my sample program. So far, I can see the browser popup dialogbox,
but I always got authentication failure message after I gave login and password.
Steps which I did:
1. Start server - Start examples server which is weblogic700/samples/server/config/examples/startExamplesServer.sh
(I am on Sun's Solaris).
2. Start descriptor editing window -- In Management Console, select Deployment -->
Web Applications --> examplesWebApp, then start "Edit Web Appliation Deployment Descriptors.."
in another browser window.
3. Login Config - In the new window, select "Web App Descriptor", then "Configure
a new Login Config...", then select "Basic" for Auth Method , and type in "myrealm"
for "Realm Name".
4. Specify constraints - Select "Security Constraints", and then "Configure a new
Security Constraint". Use "MySecurity Constraint" as the display name, and use "MyWeb
Resource Collection" as Resource Name. Type in /* in the "Url Patterns" field.
5. Configure a security role - Select "Security Constraints", and then "Configure
a new Security Role". Type in Admin for "Role Name".
6. Configure a Auth Constraint - Select "Security Constraints" --> "MySecurity Constraint",
then "Configure a new Auth Constraint...". Click on Create button in Configuration
tab, then move Admin from Available to Choosen column, then click on Apply
7. Persist these changes and then restart the server
That's all what I did, and then I use 'weblogic/weblogic' as login/password to try
to login to http://localhost:7001/examplesWebApp/HelloWorld2. I can see the popup
dialogbox, but I always get a failure message. By the way, weblogic/weblogic (login/password)
always work for Management Console window.
The user "weblogic" is a user defined in myrealm, and it is also in Administrators
group. The role definition of "Admin" in myrealm has "Caller is a member of group
Administrators" as one of its conditions. So my understanding is that it should work,
but unfortunately it doesn't. I must miss some steps or part of my understanding
may not be right.
Hope somebody can give me some help.
Thanks.
Yunpeng Zhang

Answer 1

Hello Abhilash,
lets check what is the authentication selected for the Central Admin web applicaiton.
go to CA --> Appliaction management --> manage web applicaiton --> select the central admin web app --> on the top ribbon select "Authentication Providers".
here , verify under IIS authenticaiton settings section, which option is selected, if the basic authenticaiton check box is checked, please uncheck it and select "integrated Windows Authentication".
if this doesnt work, 
try unprovisioning and reprovisioning the CA usning command ..
psconfig.exe -cmd adminvs -unprovision
psconfig.exe -cmd adminvs -provision -port 0000 -windowsauthprovider onlyusentlm
REF: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-in/library/cc263093(v=office.14).aspx 
or ..
if you have other servers in the farm, you can just start the Central Admin service on other server and stop it on the current one from "Services on server
" option on CA.
let me know afterwards ...
Thanks, Noddy