Andre Thanks for taking the time to respond to my plea. :-)
> the way you describe it sounds like an authentication problem, where a bunch > of near simultaneous requests to the server (for embedded images, css, etc.) > all hit some "not yet authenticated" condition, and all together (or rather > each separately) return a 401 or similar (or a login page instead of a > requested image e.g.). Maybe there is something new in that respect with > Windows Server 2012, which your application's authentication framework does > not handle well ? My problem is that I don't know what changed in Win 2012 that would cause Tomcat to behave differently. Perhaps it's a default security setting that changed? FYI, I can request image files from the 2008 server w/o being logged in and they display just fine. Below is a sample from my localhost_access_log. Notice that all the files, except for the favicon which we don't have, all return a status of 200 and size 3715 - the welcome file - no matter what was requested. 200 means OK, right? 10.25.20.35 - - [03/Dec/2014:11:50:04 -0500] "GET /app/ HTTP/1.1" 200 3715 10.25.20.35 - - [03/Dec/2014:11:50:05 -0500] "GET /app/include/styles.css HTTP/1.1" 200 3715 10.25.20.35 - - [03/Dec/2014:11:50:05 -0500] "GET /app/css/GridStyle.css HTTP/1.1" 200 3715 10.25.20.35 - - [03/Dec/2014:11:50:05 -0500] "GET /app/images/back2.gif HTTP/1.1" 200 3715 10.25.20.35 - - [03/Dec/2014:11:50:06 -0500] "GET /images/favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 987 10.25.20.35 - - [03/Dec/2014:11:51:27 -0500] "POST /app/Login HTTP/1.1" 200 5526 10.25.20.35 - - [03/Dec/2014:11:51:27 -0500] "GET /app/include/styles.css HTTP/1.1" 200 3715 10.25.20.35 - - [03/Dec/2014:11:51:27 -0500] "GET /app/images/back2.gif HTTP/1.1" 200 3715 10.25.20.35 - - [03/Dec/2014:11:51:27 -0500] "GET /app/css/GridStyle.css HTTP/1.1" 200 3715 10.25.20.35 - - [03/Dec/2014:11:51:27 -0500] "GET /app/images/f15.jpg HTTP/1.1" 200 3715 10.25.20.35 - - [03/Dec/2014:11:51:28 -0500] "GET /app/images/tab-off.gif HTTP/1.1" 200 3715 10.25.20.35 - - [03/Dec/2014:11:51:28 -0500] "GET /images/favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 987 10.25.20.35 - - [03/Dec/2014:11:59:08 -0500] "GET /app/main/main.jsp HTTP/1.1" 200 3715 10.25.20.35 - - [03/Dec/2014:11:59:08 -0500] "GET /app/include/styles.css HTTP/1.1" 200 3715 10.25.20.35 - - [03/Dec/2014:11:59:08 -0500] "GET /app/images/back2.gif HTTP/1.1" 200 3715 10.25.20.35 - - [03/Dec/2014:11:59:08 -0500] "GET /app/css/GridStyle.css HTTP/1.1" 200 3715 10.25.20.35 - - [03/Dec/2014:11:59:08 -0500] "GET /app/images/favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 200 3715 > (or the structure of your application). > (e.g. the login page itself contains references to images and css which > themselves are in a protected area and so on). Eh, the login page itself is really plain - no images in it. Just the pages afterwards once you log in. -- Cris Berneburg, Lead Software Engineer CACI, IRMA Project, 703-679-5313 -----Original Message----- From: André Warnier [mailto:a...@ice-sa.com] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2014 1:22 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: tomcat on windows 2012 weirdness Cris Berneburg - US wrote: > Hi Folks > > I'm having trouble with my JSP web app using Tomcat 6 and 7 on Windows Server > 2012. > > The issue is that no matter what file I request in the browser URL, it always > returns the app welcome file, that is, the login page. Even when requesting > an image. The one exception is that after logging in, the main menu page > appears, but none of the graphics or CSS files load. Clicking on the app > links, it just brings up the welcome page again. Checking the Tomcat log > files, I see that Tomcat is returning the welcome page instead of the files > requested in the main menu page. > > Using the Tomcat manager, I see that my application has a ridiculous number > of sessions, instead of just one. I interpret that for every single file > requested, a new Tomcat session is being generated and possibly invalidated.. > > FYI, using the same setup on Windows Server 2003 and 2008 works fine. > Opening the same firewall ports on all three OS's has been done. Even > disabling the firewall on 2012 does not affect the issue in any way. And to > make things even weirder, accessing the application from a browser on the > server itself using localhost works fine! > > I wonder if there is some mystery setting somewhere that is crippling the > app. Got any suggestions? Please help. Thanks! > Without realling getting to the bottom of it, the way you describe it sounds like an authentication problem, where a bunch of near simultaneous requests to the server (for embedded images, css, etc.) all hit some "not yet authenticated" condition, and all together (or rather each separately) return a 401 or similar (or a login page instead of a requested image e.g.). Maybe there is something new in that respect with Windows Server 2012, which your application's authentication framework does not handle well ? (or the structure of your application). (e.g. the login page itself contains references to images and css which themselves are in a protected area and so on). --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
