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OpenSSO integration on Tomcat 6.0.18

January 12, 2009 By Prashant Dighe

Many people have complained about not being able to get OpenSSO authentication to work with Liferay on Tomcat. It is a known issue that OpenSSO does not work with Tomcat 6.0.16 from the 6.x series. So you must use Tomcat 6.0.18 or the older 5.x versions of tomcat. This is due to cookie encoding issues.

On Tomcat 6.0.18, you need to set the cookie encoding to true by following the steps below.

  1. Login to OpenSSO as amadmin
  2. Goto Configuration -> Server and Sites -> <myserver> -> Security -> Cookie
  3. Set  "Encode Cookie Value" to Yes

If this value is no editable, then click on "Inheritance Settings" button. Uncheck "Encode Cookie Value" from inheritance settings and save. Then go back and you should see a check box for Encode Cookie Value.

Also make sure you are using the latest Enterprise 8.0 release of OpenSSO from https://opensso.dev.java.net/public/use/index.html

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Mani kandan
Mani kandan
8/31/11 12:20 AM

Can we not integrate OpenSSO with Liferay 6.0.6 (tomcat 6.0.29)?
I am not able to integrate with Liferay 6.0.6 because it has tomcat 6.0.29

Satish Bhor
Satish Bhor
3/30/12 7:37 AM

Prashant Dighe,

I have setup Liferay 6.0.6 that has tomcat tomcat-6.0.29. On the same machine/server i have setup OpenSSO which runs on tomcat-6.0.35. I have configured opensso for liferay however my configurations do not redirect my liferay to opensso and instead stays on the its own login page. I tried the settings you have mentioned above but that seems not to work for me. Is there anything that you help me with?

Satish Bhor
Satish Bhor
3/30/12 7:39 AM

Also, the opensso version that i am using is Release 9.5.2_RC1 Build 563

Satish Bhor
Satish Bhor
3/30/12 9:00 AM

Prashant Dighe,

It looks like my above problem was solved..at least i am getting redirected to Opensso login page when i try to go my liferay login. However, when i login on opensso. it goes in a continuos loop and my browser gives me the following message

"Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete."

I am not sure what the problem is, however following are the liferay settings that i have done.

1. Login URL: http://opensso.example.com:9090/openam/UI/Login?goto=http://test.server.com:8080­/c/portal/login
2. Logout URL: http://opensso.example.com:9090/openam/UI/Logout?goto=http://test.server.com:808­0/web/guest/home
3. Service URL: http://opensso.example.com:9090/openam