Home/ Questions/Q 8236583
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-06-07T19:10:52+00:00

Currently trying, without success, to configure the AUTH-METHOD element of the web.xml externally (through

  • 0

Currently trying, without success, to configure the AUTH-METHOD element of the web.xml externally (through system properties loaded during JBoss 7.1.1 startup).

I thought this would do the job : 

<login-config>
    <auth-method>${prest_authMethod}</auth-method>
    <realm-name>PREST Authentication</realm-name>
</login-config>

But it crashes during deployment : 

12:56:01,773 ERROR [org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig] (MSC service thread 1-4) Cannot configure an authenticator for method ${prest_authMethod}

Is there a way to access system properties from web.xml ? Or any other way to configure the AUTH-METHOD with external configuration ?
Thanks for any help.

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    Apparently, this configuration does not work anymore on JBoss 7 but was working on JBoss 5 and 6. Have a look at https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-3195. The reason is “outside of EE specs”.

    However, due to a high number of community complaints, this should comes back in EAP 7.1.2 and 7.2 GA (the community version 7.1.2 was not built as a released version, the patch should comes with 7.2).

    • 0