Authenticating a web applications in an LDAP (Active Directory)

[MPeccorini]

Fellows,
I hav installed a WebSphere and I'm trying to setup authentication for a web application using my Windows Active Directory. WebSphere is installed in a Unix (AIX 5.3) box.

I have managed to authenticate the login for entering the WebSphere Administration site but can't manage to do the same with the web application.

The closest I have been is securing the location in the http.conf but the directives of LDAP doesn't seem to work. I guess I need to load the LDAP module, then configure it properly and then secure the location but I have no idea how to do all this or if I need to download or by the LDAP authentication module.

I know this should go in the WebSphere forum and I have posted there but since the HTTP Server of WebSphere is our greatly loved Apache I decided to post here too.

Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.

Best regards,

Mauricio Peccorini

 

[ericbrunson]

Apache is only working as a dispatcher to handle requests and hand them off to the app server.

You have two choices:

1) authenticate the entire site through apache, which means you can't even get to the index page without authenticating,

or

2) post your question to a Java forum, it's all "write-once-run-anywhere", right? Maybe try the JBoss forum, they're usually pretty helpful. Otherwise ditch J2EE because it's a bloated piece of crap.

 

[MPeccorini]

Thanks, I actually want to authenticate the entire site as you mentioned (And yes, I know I won't be able to see anything without autentication).

But how can I do that? I have found mod_ibm_ldap inside the apache modules folder but I have not been able to get Apache up and running if I load it and use the LdapConfigFile directive.

Any other ideas?

Regards,

Mauricio Peccorini