Hi Neil I know about this issues and you will see a complete new GUI concerning chains in 2.3 (you can download beta1 and test).
The improvements will not find their way into 2.2 series. You can try to edit <geoserverdatadir>/security/config.xml directly. Christian Zitat von Neil Jakeman <[email protected]>: > Hi all, > I am having a problem accessing the WMS service on the GWC that is > packaged with Geoserver 2.2, but I think the issue is more general... > My WMS requests are being forwarded by a proxy rewrite rule from the > main web server.Unfortunately in doing this it seems that basic > authentication header information (the ldap credentials in this > case) are being passed on as well. > In the authentication settings in geoserver, 'basic' ,by default, is > higher up the list than 'anonymous', so the credentials that are > provided are tested and fail even though I don't really want any > authentication test for a map tile! > The symptom is that if a GWC/WMS (and probably a WMS) request are > made directly to the geoserver, the tile(s) are supplied no > problem.As soon as the request is redirected via the proxy rule on > my website server, the authentication fails (unless of course, by > sheer conincidence, there happens to be a geoserver account with > identical credentials) > I think the easiest thing to do would be to remove basic from the > REST and GWC request chain, or at least move it below anonymous, > but I cannot save any change that I make to these settings via the > web interface. No changes are retained when I click on save. > Is there a way I can configure this via the XML instead or am I > barking up the wrong tree entirely? > Help! > Neil > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_jan _______________________________________________ Geoserver-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users
