Thank you for the recommendations, Jody. I will do some research into
changing the XML parser. I'm going to test a few more versions of GeoServer
to see if any supported versions produce the same login issue as 2.2.4.
Thanks for your help,
Juanita
On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 7:07 PM Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
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