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Alfresco SHARE NTLM + SSO is not working for 3.2r2

iseyfi — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:39:52 GMT

I recently downloaded the most recent version of Alfresco. I set it up with passthru and ldap. I then enabled ntml sso. Alfresco browser is correctly working. It authenticates users with out a problem. However Alfresco share is throwing the following exception every time I visit it. java.lang.NullPo

Re: Alfresco SHARE NTLM + SSO is not working for 3.2r2

boutch55555 — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:16:27 GMT

I have exactly the same problem. I've been looking around for a fix for the previous week, and still can't find anything. I did more than 3 times a fresh install of 3.2r2, on linux (debian lenny) , from both the "regular" installer and the tomcat bundle, and the share SSO still won't work. It still works with the login when I rollback the changes from the wiki.

Re: Alfresco SHARE NTLM + SSO is not working for 3.2r2

ivan_plestina — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:53:17 GMT

Check endpoint url in webscript-framework-config-custom.xml. Make sure it includes port if you are using default 8080.

Re: Alfresco SHARE NTLM + SSO is not working for 3.2r2

dward — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:51:05 GMT

This was 'refixed' in ETHREEOH-3274, merged to HEAD in revision 17464.

Re: Alfresco SHARE NTLM + SSO is not working for 3.2r2

dangruhn — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:33:49 GMT

I am new to Alfresco, but I believe I am having the same problem in 3.2r2.

Dward, when you say "This was 'refixed' in ETHREEOH-3274, merged to HEAD in revision 17464", are you saying it should be in the 3.2r2 community download (I have release_community_build-2440_Alfresco-Community-3.2r2-Linux-x86-Install and Alfresco-Community-3.2r2-Linux-x86-Install, which are both the same) or that I need to get it directly from a repository?

If from a repository, a link to instructions would be appreciated. Also, I'd like to see more detailed debugging information but haven't yet found the file to change. Would some one please help with that (plus which output file to look at)?

Thanks

I am using:
Java 1.6.0_18
tomcat 6.0.18
MySQL 5.1.42
CentOS 5.4

Re: Alfresco SHARE NTLM + SSO is not working for 3.2r2

benswitzer — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:52:57 GMT

Dward, when you say "This was 'refixed' in ETHREEOH-3274, merged to HEAD in revision 17464", are you saying it should be in the 3.2r2 community download (I have release_community_build-2440_Alfresco-Community-3.2r2-Linux-x86-Install and Alfresco-Community-3.2r2-Linux-x86-Install, which are both the same) or that I need to get it directly from a repository?

Hi DanGruhn.

No, the fix is not in 3.2r2. The build number for 3.2r2 is 17458. The build numbers can be found in the release notes for each release. You can get the fix a couple of different ways. One would be to grab a nightly build from http://dev.alfresco.com/downloads/nightly/dist/ or grab the code from the svn repository and build yourself. Or lastly, wait for 3.3. All depends on your comfort and skill levels.

Ben

Re: Alfresco SHARE NTLM + SSO is not working for 3.2r2

slagou — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:24:16 GMT

Hi I am desperately trying to get this to work and having no luck.

I have the main alfresco site working with SSO and AD, but the share site will not run with the exact error reported here.

I downloaded the latest build as suggested : http://dev.alfresco.com/downloads/nightly/dist/Alfresco-Community-3.3dev-Full-Setup.exe

Using Windows Server 2k3 this produces multiple exceptions without any configuration changes apart from the settings applied during the installer.

I then attempted to patch the share code using this Download:
http://wiki.alfresco.com/w/images/2/2c/WebFrameworkConnectorProvider_Share_NTLMfix_Labs3E.zip
As suggested in this thread http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=16472&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=30

Still the same exception and error page on the share site.

I need to get this working for my client, and I recommended alfresco to him over sharepoint as the features list on your site listed AD integration.

Is there any possibility of getting a patched class posted here for 3.2r? or any other help or suggestion?

I am not trying todo anything crazy, I just need a vanilla install that will work with an AD servers existing users.

Re: Alfresco SHARE NTLM + SSO is not working for 3.2r2

dangruhn — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:41:43 GMT

I downloaded the development 3.3 from Jan 14, 2010 and eventually got this working. However, not unexpectedly I was getting problems with missing files in tomcat/webapps/share/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco:

I copied over versions from my saved 3.2r2 and then got this:


11:22:24,869 ERROR [org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader] Context initialization failed
org.springframework.beans.factory.CannotLoadBeanClassException: Cannot find class [org.alfresco.config.source.UrlConfigSource] for bean with name 'web.configsource' defined in class path resource [alfresco/webscript-framework-application-context.xml]; nested exception is java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.alfresco.config.source.UrlConfigSource
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.resolveBeanClass(AbstractBeanFactory.java:1208)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.predictBeanType(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:568)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.isFactoryBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:1277)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.isFactoryBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:844)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:539)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:842)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:416)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:261)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:192)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:47)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3843)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4342)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:791)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:771)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:525)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:830)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:719)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:490)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1149)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:311)
   at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:117)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:719)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1045)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:516)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:710)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:578)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
   at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:288)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:413)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.alfresco.config.source.UrlConfigSource
   at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1387)
   at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1233)
   at org.springframework.util.ClassUtils.forName(ClassUtils.java:258)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinition.resolveBeanClass(AbstractBeanDefinition.java:408)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doResolveBeanClass(AbstractBeanFactory.java:1229)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.resolveBeanClass(AbstractBeanFactory.java:1200)
   … 33 more
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I'm lost here. Most things seem to be working but I don't know if there is something lurking to bite me at some point. A patched class for 3.2r2 sound like a great idea to me.

Re: Alfresco SHARE NTLM + SSO is not working for 3.2r2

slagou — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:23:25 GMT

I agree, there was a Patched class posted in this thread: http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=16472&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=30
With the download here : http://wiki.alfresco.com/w/images/2/2c/WebFrameworkConnectorProvider_Share_NTLMfix_Labs3E.zip

But the thread is a year old so I assume it was setup to work with an older build.

I am sure I patched the correct Jar in the correct path but got the same error, could anybody confirm this?

Also maybe a developer could post a link to the correctly patched version of the one java source file from SVN, I could compile myself and just patch the 1 class file.

Re: Alfresco SHARE NTLM + SSO is not working for 3.2r2

xana_cloete — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:03:20 GMT

I've installed 3.2r2 build 2440
I managed to get auth and sync working but ever since then I've been getting the same message as above.

Has there been any resolution to this problem.

Thanks.

Re: Alfresco SHARE NTLM + SSO is not working for 3.2r2

mikeh — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:59:15 GMT

I don't have the answer to NTLM + SSO, but I can say that there's no way 3.2r2 config will work on 3.3dev (current SVN HEAD) due to the huge changes involved in moving the web script and web framework projects to Spring - that's the cause of the "class not found" exception a couple of posts up.

Mike

Re: Alfresco SHARE NTLM + SSO is not working for 3.2r2

slagou — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 01:31:21 GMT

Update, I actually got this to work by using version 3.2.

Unfortunately Share is completely broken in this version, any site created cannot be loaded by another user, or the creator once the user had logged out or the server restarted.

This is a real shame that the current release basically cannot work with an Active Directory Server. I have setup a 3.2r2 system without any AD authentication for my client to evaluate, but now we both have a real lack of confidence in the software, and its community support. It is very likely that we will be moving to a sharepoint system as a result of these problems.

EDIT: Fixed version typo

Re: Alfresco SHARE NTLM + SSO is not working for 3.2r2

xana_cloete — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:00:49 GMT

Hi

Will there be any problems with this in the Enterprise edition.
I am willing to purchase the enterprise edition but only if this would work.
I have decided to download it anyway. I wil give it a try. Some of the features in the EE are realy appealing.

The only reason I realy need a system like alfresco is to give my users a way to create work spaces in Office and OpenOffice.
The Share feature is also realy great and will work well in our enviroment.

Thanks.

Re: Alfresco SHARE NTLM + SSO is not working for 3.2r2

mikeh — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:45:45 GMT

Update, I actually got this to work by using version 2.3.

Unfortunately Share is completely broken in this version, any site created cannot be loaded by another user, or the creator once the user had logged out or the server restarted.

This is a real shame that the current release basically cannot work with an Active Directory Server. I have setup a 3.2r2 system without any AD authentication for my client to evaluate, but now we both have a real lack of confidence in the software, and its community support. It is very likely that we will be moving to a sharepoint system as a result of these problems.

Version 2.3?

Mike

Re: Alfresco SHARE NTLM + SSO is not working for 3.2r2

slagou — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:08:38 GMT

Version 2.3?

Mike

Sorry Typo.. I meant version 3.2

Re: Alfresco SHARE NTLM + SSO is not working for 3.2r2

jforde — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:41:05 GMT

Hi, I'm new to Alfresco as well and am having the exact same problem.

Dward,
Can you give detailed instructions on how to correctly patch this issue? It is holding up further testing of Alfresco at my firm.
Thanks!

Re: Alfresco SHARE NTLM + SSO is not working for 3.2r2

dangruhn — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:56:24 GMT

I don't have the answer to NTLM + SSO, but I can say that there's no way 3.2r2 config will work on 3.3dev (current SVN HEAD) due to the huge changes involved in moving the web script and web framework projects to Spring - that's the cause of the "class not found" exception a couple of posts up.

Okay, I can understand that. The question then becomes where are the files that 3.3dev is looking for? In particular:

webscript-framework-application-context.xml
web-framework-application-context.xml
web-framework-model-context.xml

I'm not much on Java, but I did download the current SVN HEAD. I don't see how to extract these files from what I now have locally.

Re: Alfresco SHARE NTLM + SSO is not working for 3.2r2

kevinr — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:39:05 GMT

Hi

Will there be any problems with this in the Enterprise edition.
I am willing to purchase the enterprise edition but only if this would work.
I have decided to download it anyway. I wil give it a try. Some of the features in the EE are realy appealing.

The only reason I realy need a system like alfresco is to give my users a way to create work spaces in Office and OpenOffice.
The Share feature is also realy great and will work well in our enviroment.

Thanks.

Features such as NTLM, LDAP etc. are fully tested and certified on various stacks for all Enterprise editions - sometimes bugs like this one do sneak into the Community editions, but that is to be expected as less testing is done before the community releases, after all, testing costs money.

As this user noted:

Hi DanGruhn.

No, the fix is not in 3.2r2. The build number for 3.2r2 is 17458. The build numbers can be found in the release notes for each release. You can get the fix a couple of different ways. One would be to grab a nightly build from http://dev.alfresco.com/downloads/nightly/dist/ or grab the code from the svn repository and build yourself. Or lastly, wait for 3.3. All depends on your comfort and skill levels.

Ben

So unfortunately there was a problem with NTLM + Share in 3.2r2. This can be fixed, either by pulling the latest version from SVN (it is currently working fine in latest 3.3 - I have tested it myself). I will look at providing a simple patch file for 3.2r2 today.

Thanks,

Kev

Re: Alfresco SHARE NTLM + SSO is not working for 3.2r2

dward — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:48:08 GMT

I have cloned this issue to a community JIRA to make sure it gets proper attention from QA

https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALFCOM-3801

I have attached a patch with the 3.2r2 fix to the bug.

Have you tried just checking out and building revision 17464 from SVN?

Re: Alfresco SHARE NTLM + SSO is not working for 3.2r2

kevinr — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:07:04 GMT

I have made the patched .class file for 3.2r2 as a download available on the JIRA item: https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALFCOM-3801

Download the zip, unpack it - with the folder structure - to:
$TOMCAT_HOME$/shared/classes

obviously ensure to place it under the Share tomcat instance if you are using a separate web-tier tomcat. This will fix the bug in 3.2r2 - you will still need to follow the wiki instructions as usual. I have tested this, if you follow the instructions for setting up NTLM correctly then it works.

Cheers,

Kev