I would be far more comfortable if you work on a supported version of GeoServer and focus on getting that working (2.2.4 was released in 2013!) Can you check the xml parsers available in web sphere? It looks like the parser provided by your environment is not supported?
You have quite the work cut out for you Juanita, although we ask for testing each release cycle you are the first to provide feedback in ... quite some time. -- Jody Garnett On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 at 12:51, Juanita Dahlin < juanita.av...@concept-solutions.com> wrote: > Hello GeoServer Team, > > I've been tasked with porting GeoServer 2.2.4 from GlassFish to WebSphere > 8.5.5. GeoServer runs fine under WebSphere except for login to the admin > site. > > When I attempt to login to the GeoServer admin site, I am directed to a > blank /j_spring_security_check page. If I tail the geoserver.log or the > WebSphere SystemOut.log absolutely no messages are logged. It's as if the > Spring login filter is not invoked at all. > > I've tried various WebSphere tweaks including class load order and custom > Web Container properties. Evidently the invokefilterscompatibility property > used to solve similar issues in older versions of WebSphere, but it's no > longer available in WebSphere 8.5.5: > > com.ibm.ws.webcontainer.invokefilterscompatibility = true > > Has anyone else had success getting GeoServer login to work in WebSphere > 8.5.5? > > FYI, I also have the option of upgrading to a newer version of GeoServer. > However, I've tried 2.16.0 and 2.14.4 and cannot even get the admin site to > come up. With newer versions of GeoServer, I see this message in the > browser: > > Error 500: javax.servlet.ServletException: Filter [filterChainProxy]: > could not be initialized > > And this message in the logs: > > java.lang.ClassCastException: > org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl cannot be cast to > javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory > > Thanks for your help, > Juanita Dahlin > > -- > > *Juanita Avila Dahlin* > > Software Developer for the FAA AIM-SAA program > > ConceptSolutions, LLC > > www.concept-solutions.com > > > www.concept-solutions.com > > *An Equal Opportunity Employer* > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information and/or documents contained in this > transmission may contain confidential or proprietary information. The > information is solely for the use of the addressee named above. If you are > not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, > copying, distribution, any action in reliance or other use of the contents > of this transmission is strictly prohibited. > > _______________________________________________ > Geoserver-users mailing list > > Please make sure you read the following two resources before posting to > this list: > - Earning your support instead of buying it, but Ian Turton: > http://www.ianturton.com/talks/foss4g.html#/ > - The GeoServer user list posting guidelines: > http://geoserver.org/comm/userlist-guidelines.html > > If you want to request a feature or an improvement, also see this: > https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/Successfully-requesting-and-integrating-new-features-and-improvements-in-GeoServer > > > Geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users >
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