Question

I have created a login page using a nice guide that I found about Java EE6 and GlassFish3 using netbeans.
After deploying the project when I try to reach the login page I get ‘HTTP Status 403 – Access to the requested resource has been denied’ from GlassFish3 server.

The url I am using is : http://localhost:9999/simplewebapp/admin/admin.jsp
The guide says that I should automatically be redirected to the login page I have created.

Instead I am receiving the above error.
Looking at the glassfish3 log I am getting these two lines when I am entering the above url.

INFO: JACC Policy Provider:Failed Permission Check: context (” simplewebapp/simplewebapp “) , permission (” (javax.security.jacc.WebUserDataPermission /admin/login.jsp GET) “)
INFO: JACC Policy Provider:Failed Permission Check: context (” simplewebapp/simplewebapp “) , permission (” (javax.security.jacc.WebUserDataPermission /admin/login.jsp GET:CONFIDENTIAL) “)

Some more details :

web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="3.0" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd">
    <session-config>
        <session-timeout>
            30
        </session-timeout>
    </session-config>
    <security-constraint>
        <display-name>Admin Pages</display-name>
        <web-resource-collection>
            <web-resource-name>Administrative Pages</web-resource-name>
            <description/>
            <url-pattern>/admin/*</url-pattern>
        </web-resource-collection>
        <auth-constraint>
            <description>admin</description>
        </auth-constraint>
    </security-constraint>
    <login-config>
        <auth-method>FORM</auth-method>
        <realm-name>file</realm-name>
        <form-login-config>
            <form-login-page>/login.jsp</form-login-page>
            <form-error-page>/loginerror.jsp</form-error-page>
        </form-login-config>
    </login-config>
    <security-role>
        <description>Administrators</description>
        <role-name>admin</role-name>
    </security-role>
    <security-role>
        <description>Users</description>
        <role-name>user</role-name>
    </security-role>
</web-app>

glassfish-web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glassfish-web-app PUBLIC "-//GlassFish.org//DTD GlassFish Application Server 3.1 Servlet 3.0//EN" "http://glassfish.org/dtds/glassfish-web-app_3_0-1.dtd">
<glassfish-web-app error-url="">
  <security-role-mapping>
    <role-name>admin</role-name>
    <group-name>appadmin</group-name>
  </security-role-mapping>
  <class-loader delegate="true"/>
  <jsp-config>
    <property name="keepgenerated" value="true">
      <description>Keep a copy of the generated servlet class' java code.</description>
    </property>
  </jsp-config>
</glassfish-web-app>

What am I doing wrong here?
Thank you.

Answer 1

Problem solved.I had to add principal names in glassfish-web.xml and a role-name in web.xml.
Correct files :

web-xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="3.0" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd">
    <session-config>
        <session-timeout>
            30
        </session-timeout>
    </session-config>
    <security-constraint>
        <display-name>Admin Pages</display-name>
        <web-resource-collection>
            <web-resource-name>Administrative Pages</web-resource-name>
            <description/>
            <url-pattern>/admin/*</url-pattern>
        </web-resource-collection>
        <auth-constraint>
            <description>admin</description>
            <role-name>AdminRole</role-name>
        </auth-constraint>
    </security-constraint>
    <login-config>
        <auth-method>FORM</auth-method>
        <realm-name>file</realm-name>
        <form-login-config>
            <form-login-page>/login.jsp</form-login-page>
            <form-error-page>/loginerror.jsp</form-error-page>
        </form-login-config>
    </login-config>
    <security-role>
        <description>Administrators</description>
        <role-name>AdminRole</role-name>
    </security-role>
    <security-role>
        <description>Users</description>
        <role-name>UserRole</role-name>
    </security-role>
</web-app>

glassfish-web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glassfish-web-app PUBLIC "-//GlassFish.org//DTD GlassFish Application Server 3.1 Servlet 3.0//EN" "http://glassfish.org/dtds/glassfish-web-app_3_0-1.dtd">
<glassfish-web-app error-url="">
  <security-role-mapping>
    <role-name>AdminRole</role-name>
    <principal-name>admin</principal-name>
    <group-name>appadmin</group-name>
  </security-role-mapping>
  <security-role-mapping>
    <role-name>UserRole</role-name>
    <principal-name>user</principal-name>
    <group-name>appuser</group-name>
  </security-role-mapping>
  <class-loader delegate="true"/>
  <jsp-config>
    <property name="keepgenerated" value="true">
      <description>Keep a copy of the generated servlet class' java code.</description>
    </property>
  </jsp-config>
</glassfish-web-app>