Tomcat 7 & j_security_check

[Kevin P Smith]

Hi

I have just been trying s little play around with Tomcat 7 and using the j_security_check security contraints with MySQL (see this tutorial: http://marakana.com/blog/examples/java/securing-java-web-applications-using-form-based-container-managed-security.html)

The problem is, when I goto the login.jsp and click 'submit' the first time, it just reloads the login.jsp page, the next time I get a 404 error:-

HTTP Status 404 - /webroot/j_security_check

type Status report

message /webroot/j_security_check

description The requested resource (/webroot/j_security_check) is not available.
Apache Tomcat/7.0.2

Has this functionality changed in Tomcat 7 to previous versions?

Any tips greatly appreciated.

Cheers in advance

KS

[Pavel Tavoda]

Yesterday I fight with same problem. Problem for me was that nothing was mapped to /j_security_check (servlet or page). I had only mapping with some servlets like '*.html', '*.jsp', '*.js', ... but none match /j_security_check. Because of this tomcat 7 decide not to start even filters which should be started '/*' (filter mapping isn't enough for tomcat 7). I add following line to web.xml and everything start to work:

	<servlet-mapping>
		<servlet-name>default</servlet-name>
		<url-pattern>/j_security_check</url-pattern>
	</servlet-mapping>