Hi there,
I wanted to bring this up again, as I have not been able to solve this
problem yet. I took a look at the post, but did not really see much
that could help me. I am not using mod_jk, but instead have defined a
reverse proxy link in our main apache server that points to the Tomcat
instance running on a separate application server, which is
purposefully invisible to the forward facing Internet.
You can take a look at my server at:
http://www.who.int/tools/geoserver/
which will show you the "strange" URL that I mentioned in my previous
mail. WMS seem to work fine actually, but I cannot login to the
administrative interface.
Now that I have upgraded to version 1.60 RC1, I get a different error
message, namely
Invalid username/password combination which is different than what I
got with 1.54.
This is not a major problem for me at the moment, as I syncronize this
Geoserver instance from a development machine, which is not behind a
reverse proxy, but I do need occasionally to access some
administrative functions and up until now, have to do it with an XML
editor, which Andrea advised me against doing. 
Any help would be appreciated. I did not see any thing in the logs,
but I might need to turn up the debugging level.
Best regards,
Jason
On 10/7/07, Per-Olof Norén <pelle@anonymised.com> wrote:
Hi
A similar problem has been discussed earlier, here:
http://www.nabble.com/DNS%2C-URLs-and--geoserver-necessary--tf4259875.html#a12122679
The "strange" url your seeing is just the session being set up. Nothing
abnormal per se.
What does the geoserver log say?
regards,
Per-Olof
Jason Pickering skrev:
> Hi Everyone,
> I am not really sure if this is a geoserver issue or a Tomcat/Apache issue.
> I have a geoserver instance running behind a reverse proxy (Apache 2.2 and
> Tomcat6). I am able to access my server through a URL:
>
> http://MYSERVER/geoserver/wms?service=WMS&request=GetMap&format=application/vnd.google-earth.kmz+XML....etc .
> etc.
>
> However, I am not able to login to the administrative interface of
> Geoserver. A strange URL comes up like this:
>
> http://MYSERVER/geoserver/welcome.do%3Bjsessionid=F72746D50CD0A0F3EC0502F7DDD56095
>
> and when I try and log in I get a message like:
>
>
> - Username is required.
> - Password is required.
>
> Is this a geoserver issue or an issue with my reverse proxy setup?
>
> Thanks for your help in advance!
>
> Best regards,
> Jason Pickering
>
>
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