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Asked: 2026-05-27T08:37:39+00:00

I’m trying to setup gerrit HTTP authentication. I am reading the documentation at gerrit

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I’m trying to setup gerrit HTTP authentication.
I am reading the documentation at gerrit http authentication which briefly talks about how to setup apache but where exactly do I put this piece of code and configure apache tomcat?

Otherwise, I researched and found out about “siteminder” for http authentication; am I supposed to be using that instead?

My requirements are that I have my own set of user accounts in my custom system and I need each of my user accounts to be able to interact with gerrit so I figured http would allow custom creation/duplicate of each.

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    Took me a while to figure this out.

    Tomcat was installed and tested.

    Then I copied gerrit war file over and put it in tomcat/webapps. Then from the tomcat manager http://[host]:8080/manager/ I installed it (by clicking the start button)

    Then I had to install mysql J Connector. Basically download it from Mysql and copy the jar file into tomcat/lib

    Next I created a file in tomcat/webapps/gerrit/META-INF called Context.xml

    <Context>
  <Resource name="jdbc/ReviewDb" auth="Container" type="javax.sql.DataSource"
            maxActive="100" maxIdle="30" maxWait="10000"
            username="****" password="******" driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
            url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/reviewdb"/>
</Context>

    Because I had used bouncy castle with the daemon I had to copy the .jar file from original install to tomcat/webapps/gerrit/WEB-INF/lib

    Then I managed to start gerrit to see if it was working. Try accessing http://[host]:8080/gerrit This should give you an error from gerrit about bad Apache conf.

    Than I reconfigured my apache virtual host like this. So I access gerrit with http://gerrit/gerrit

    This then uses http auth before passing your request onto the tomcat server.

    <VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin adrian@iceweasel
    ServerName gerrit
    ServerAlias gerrit
    ErrorLog "logs/error_log"
    CustomLog "logs/access_log" vcommon

    ProxyRequests Off
    ProxyVia Off
    ProxyPreserveHost On

    <Proxy *>
        Order deny,allow
        Allow from all
    </Proxy>

    <Location /gerrit/login/>
       AuthType Basic
       AuthName "Gerrit Code Review"
       AuthUserFile /rddata/www/gerrit/users
       AuthGroupFile /rddata/www/gerrit/groups
       Require group review
       Order Deny,Allow
       Allow from all
    </Location>

    ProxyPass /gerrit/ http://127.0.0.1:8080/gerrit/
</VirtualHost>
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