FORM based Authentication issue on Sun ONE AS7

Question

I am trying to use FORM based authentication for a web module I created, and can not get it to work. I have registered the roles through the admin console of the server, and adjusted the web.xml. When I try to use BASIC authentication, I get a 'Authentication refused for []' message before I even log in, and another one after I do. When I use FORM authentication, the URL points to my login.jsp page (no matter what I put in the path, which is what is supposed to happen), however my default servlet (hello.java) is actually run, and the login.jsp page never comes up. I created my jsps and servlet in the mounted [ejb]_WebModule. Please let me know if something seems incorrect here, or if you can think of something I should check...I can't find anything out there to help me.
Here is my web.xml:
<web-app>
<display-name>DiningGuideManager_TestApp</display-name>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>front</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>data.DiningGuideManager_WebModule.hello</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>myPage</servlet-name>
<jsp-file>/myPage.jsp</jsp-file>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>front</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<session-config>
<session-timeout>30</session-timeout>
</session-config>
<security-constraint>
<web-resource-collection>
<web-resource-name>Security</web-resource-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</web-resource-collection>
<auth-constraint>
<role-name>Me</role-name>
<role-name>EveryoneElse</role-name>
</auth-constraint>
</security-constraint>
<login-config>
<auth-method>BASIC</auth-method>
<realm-name>default</realm-name>
</login-config>
<security-role>
<role-name>Me</role-name>
</security-role>
<security-role>
<role-name>EveryoneElse</role-name>
</security-role>
<ejb-ref>
<ejb-ref-name>ejb/TestedEJB</ejb-ref-name>
<ejb-ref-type>Session</ejb-ref-type>
<home>data.DiningGuideManagerHome</home>
<remote>data.DiningGuideManager</remote>
<ejb-link>DiningGuideManager</ejb-link>
</ejb-ref>
</web-app>
for FORM authentication I have this:
<login-config>
<auth-method>FORM</auth-method>
<realm-name>default</realm-name>
<form-login-config>
<form-login-page>/login.jsp</form-login-page>
<form-error-page>/error.jsp</form-error-page>
</form-login-config>
</login-config>
Thanks,
Michelle

Answer 1

Yes there's a default generated index.jsp page that I'm having trouble overriding with one of my own. Have you used Form Based Authentication before? To do so you have edit the WEB-INF/web.xml file by adding:
<security-constraint>
<web-resource-collection>
<web-resource-name>Secure Area</web-resource-name>
<url-pattern>/test/secure/*</url-pattern>
</web-resource-collection>
<auth-constraint>
<role-name>admin</role-name>
</auth-constraint>      
</security-constraint>
<login-config>
<auth-method>FORM</auth-method>
<form-login-config>
<form-login-page>/test/secure/loginpage.jsp</form-login-page>
<form-error-page>/test/secure/errorpage.jsp</form-error-page>
</form-login-config>
</login-config>
When you attempt to first go to any page in my /test/secure/ directory you get redirected to the /test/secure/loginpage.jsp where you have to login as a tomcat user, when succesfully logged on you get redirected to an index.jsp page which is NOT the one I created in test/secure/index.jsp. Even when I type in the url to go to my own test/secure/index.jsp I still don't get my own one that exists there, but instead get the default one that's generated that displays:
"Authentication Mechanism FORM".
Hope that makes more sense.
I've tried restarting tomcat but it makes no difference.