just for the records, this is a stupid error of my configuration behind a Apache webserver using a vhost
working vhost-config: NameVirtualHost archiva.your-domain:* <VirtualHost archiva.your-domain:*> ServerName archiva.your-domain ServerAlias archiva RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^/archiva/(.*) http://your-server:8080/archiva/$1 [P,L] RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://your-server:8080/archiva/$1 [P,L] ProxyPreserveHost On ProxyPassReverse / http://your-server:8080/archiva/ ErrorLog logs/archiva.your-domain-error.log CustomLog logs/archiva.your-domain-access.log common </VirtualHost> if you disable 'ProxyPreserveHost On' the cookie can not be identified. - Daniel > -----Original Message----- > From: Mohni, Daniel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 10:07 AM > To: archiva-users@maven.apache.org > Subject: missing Administration tasks in daily build > > Hello > > after I have a nice looking WebApp, going thru the first steps > (eg. registered the administrator, repository and index) > > now i can login, and get redirected to the browse window, > but i miss the administrator menu on the left. > > Looking at the tomcat log, tells that the admin logged in > succesfully, but there must be a problem with detecting > the login in the menu tree... > > Any hints ? > > -Daniel >