Admin account not recognized as administrator: Topbraid EDG deployment with tomcat

[Stefan Verweij]

Hi,

I would like to deploy TopBraid EDG with Tomcat through a docker-compose.yml file.

This is my docker-compose file:

version: '3.2'

services:
  tomcat:
    image: tomcat:jdk8-openjdk
    deploy:
      restart_policy:
        condition: any
    expose:
      - "8432"
    ports:
      - "8432:8080"
    environment:
      - JAVA_OPTS=-Xmx4g
      - TOPBRAID_DATA
    volumes:
      - ${TOPBRAID_DATA}/conf/tomcat-users.xml:/usr/local/tomcat/conf/tomcat-users.xml
      - ${TOPBRAID_DATA}/webapps/edg.war:/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/edg.war
      - ${TOPBRAID_DATA}/conf/web.xml:/usr/local/tomcat/conf/web.xml

When running the container everything seems to be set up accordingly and I can reach the login page at http://localhost:8432/edg/tbl/

I try to login with my admin credentials, but then I get redirected to the page saying:

This installation has not been registered yet.

Please contact your administrator to use the Configuration administration page as described in the documentation.

Which is strange since I am the administrator... Nevertheless I went to the registration page manually to register the license (http://localhost:8432/edg/tbl/admin/registration), but again I obtain the message stating I am not the admin

License Key Registration

 Admin (logout)

You need to be an admin to see this page.

I got the roles defined in the tomcat.users.xml as it should be (changed usernames and passwords for this message):

<tomcat-users xmlns="http://tomcat.apache.org/xml"
              xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
              xsi:schemaLocation="http://tomcat.apache.org/xml tomcat-users.xsd"
              version="1.0">
    <role rolename="ES-TB_Admin"/>
    <role rolename="ES-TB_Manager"/>
    <role rolename="ES-TB_Editor"/>
    <role rolename="ES-TB_Viewer"/>
    <user username="Admin" password="" roles="ES-TB_Admin,ES-TB_Manager"/>
    <user username="Editor" password="" roles="ES-TB_Editor"/>
    <user username="Guest" password="" roles="ES-TB_Viewer"/>
</tomcat-users>

And the roles are also described in the <auth-constraint> and <security-role>s in the web.xml

How can I configure Topbraid EDG to recognize my admin account is administrator?

[Stefan Verweij]

I checked the Tomcat logs in the container but they seem to look normal, except for, the localhost logs, stating the dropins do not exist?

root@32a3rh338:/usr/local/tomcat/logs# cat localhost.2020-04-06.log 

06-Apr-2020 07:04:58.088 INFO [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext.log Creating new dropin jar

06-Apr-2020 07:04:58.088 INFO [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext.log Error reading dropin folder: /var/lib/topbraid/dropins: does not exist

and these are my localhost_access logs:

 - - [06/Apr/2020:07:05:30 +0000] "GET /edg/tbl/ HTTP/1.1" 200 3596

 - Admin [06/Apr/2020:07:05:45 +0000] "POST /edg/tbl/j_security_check HTTP/1.1" 303 -

 - Admin [06/Apr/2020:07:05:46 +0000] "GET /edg/tbl/ HTTP/1.1" 200 423

 - Admin [06/Apr/2020:07:05:46 +0000] "GET /edg/tbl/swp?_viewName=home HTTP/1.1" 200 5577

 - Admin [06/Apr/2020:07:05:50 +0000] "GET /edg/tbl/lib/6.3.1.v20200219-1730B/assets/images/tqicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 200 293171

 - Admin [06/Apr/2020:07:05:53 +0000] "GET /edg/tbl/ HTTP/1.1" 200 423

 - Admin [06/Apr/2020:07:05:55 +0000] "GET /edg/tbl/admin/registration HTTP/1.1" 200 2377

 - Admin [06/Apr/2020:07:05:55 +0000] "GET /edg/tbl/lib/6.3.1.v20200219-1730B/server/build/server.bundle.js HTTP/1.1" 200 39687

 - Admin [06/Apr/2020:07:05:55 +0000] "GET /edg/tbl/lib/6.3.1.v20200219-1730B/server/build/images/EDG-Logo.png HTTP/1.1" 200 27522

 - Admin [06/Apr/2020:07:05:56 +0000] "GET /edg/tbl/lib/assets/build/fonts/OpenSans-Bold.woff2 HTTP/1.1" 200 61324

 - Admin [06/Apr/2020:07:05:56 +0000] "GET /edg/tbl/lib/assets/build/fonts/fa-solid-900.woff2 HTTP/1.1" 200 74340

my manager and host-manager logs are empty

The catalina log shows nothing special as well (all paths are specified and all config settings look okay)