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Jim Morrow
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We are just starting our migration from 5.3.3 to 7.6.4 running under Windows Server 2003 with IIS/Tomcat. We are doing self-service applications.

The variable &REMOTE_USER is not being passed up to our FOCEXEC. How do we get &REMOTE_USER into our dialogue manager?


Jim Morrow
Web Focus 7.6.10 under Windows 2003
MVS 7.3.3



 
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Francis Mariani
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Jim,

If this was working on your old environment, look at file site.wfs in the server wfs etc folder, you should see coding for &REMOTE_USER.

This should help as well:
[URL=Pass the URL of the current WF request in a DM variable]Pass the URL of the current WF request in a DM variable[/URL]


Francis


Give me code, or give me retirement. In FOCUS since 1991

Production: WF 7.7.05M, Dev Studio, BID, MRE, WebSphere, DB2 / Test: WF 8.1.05M, App Studio, BI Portal, Report Caster, jQuery, HighCharts, Apache Tomcat, MS SQL Server
 
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jbanas6
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is &remote_user just a cgi variable or can you configure it for WFServlet as well?


WF 7.6.10 /IIS 6/ JBoss Enterprise 4.3
Windows XP SP 2/Windows 2003 Server
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GamP
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In your old environment, you probably didn't have tomcat as your servlet engine.
You'll also have to add a little flag in your tomcat's server.xml file.
In this file (located in program files\apache ...\tomcat..\conf directory) for the connection with port 8009, add this: tomcatAuthentication="false"
This instructs tomcat to just pass on what it is given, without doing any checks on its own.
And now you should ne able to again use the &REMOTE_USER cgi variable syntax like you were used to.
Hope this helps.


GamP
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jbanas6
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GamP that worked great. Thanks for the post!!!


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