Troubleshooting
Problem
Directly requesting /teamworks/login.jsp or /portal/login.do displays the Invalid direct reference error when using JBoss application server.
Resolving The Problem
Directly browsing to /teamworks/login.jsp or /portal/login.do displays the Invalid direct reference error when using JBoss application server. This is a Tomcat specific problem. The root cause here is that for form based login pages, if you directly request the login page, Tomcat doesn't know where you should be redirected after authentication and throws the above error. Sadly, you can hit this a lot as it is very common to bookmark the login page itself.
The following code will fix this for the teamworks and portal login pages.
To fix /teamworks/login.jsp in Teamworks 6.0.1 and 6.1, edit the login.jsp found here:
/process-server/applications/teamworks.ear/teamworks.war/login.jsp
Find this section:
<%@ include file="html/common/prolog.jsp" %>
<html>
and put the following code between the <%@ ... %> and the <html> tags:
<%
// inserted to prevent direct accesses to login.jsp from causing problems
String agent = request.getHeader ("User-Agent");
boolean skip = false;
if (agent!=null && agent.contains("Jakarta Commons")) {
// we need this because of redirect-login's use of jakarta commons
skip = true;
}
if (session.isNew() && !skip) {
//out.println ("Session is new<br>");
String referer = request.getHeader("Referer");
//out.println ("referer:" + referer + "<br>");
//out.println ("request URI:" + request.getRequestURI() + "<br>");
// The referer is sometimes null but should be so we get it from the request attributes instead
String servletRequest = (String) request.getAttribute ("javax.servlet.forward.request_uri");
if (servletRequest != null) {
if (!servletRequest.contains ("login.jsp")) {
String queryString = (String) request.getAttribute ("javax.servlet.forward.query_string");
if (queryString != null) {
servletRequest += "?" + queryString;
}
referer = servletRequest;
//out.println ("referer =" + servletRequest + "<br>");
}
}
if (referer == null) {
//out.println ("send redirect to home");
response.sendRedirect("cs_main.lsw");
}
else {
//out.println ("send redirect to:" + referer);
response.sendRedirect(referer);
}
}
%>
To fix /portal/login.do in Teamworks 6.0.1 and 6.1, edit /portal/login.jsp found here:
/process-server/applications/portal.war/login.jsp
and put this right after the taglibs on the top of the page:
<%
if (session.isNew()) {
//out.println ("Session is new<br>");
String referer = request.getHeader("Referer");
//out.println ("referer:" + referer + "<br>");
//out.println ("request URI:" + request.getRequestURI() + "<br>");
// The referer is sometimes null but should be so we get it from the request attributes instead
String servletRequest = (String) request.getAttribute ("javax.servlet.forward.request_uri");
if (servletRequest != null) {
if (!servletRequest.contains ("login.do")) {
String queryString = (String) request.getAttribute ("javax.servlet.forward.query_string");
if (queryString != null) {
servletRequest += "?" + queryString;
}
referer = servletRequest;
//out.println ("referer =" + servletRequest + "<br>");
}
}
if (referer == null) {
//out.println ("send redirect to home");
response.sendRedirect("jsp/getSavedSearch.do");
}
else {
//out.println ("send redirect to:" + referer);
response.sendRedirect(referer);
}
}
%>
The above code will prevent the error by redirecting the user to a real page before trying to render the login page.
NOTE: if -- after applying these changes -- your teamworks or portal page does not render and an examination of the server logs indicates a jsp compile error similar to:
2008-05-12 18:16:52,630 ERROR [org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[jboss.web].[localhost].[/portal].[jsp]] Servlet.service() for servlet jsp threw exception
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP
An error occurred at line: 7 in the jsp file: /login.jsp
Generated servlet error:
The method contains(String) is undefined for the type String
you are probably using a version of Teamworks prior to Teamworks 6, which calls for a 1.4.x JVM, which does not yet have a "contains" method for the String type.
The <teamworks_install_dir>/process-server/startup/logs/daemonwrapper.log will log the JVM version, immediately after the Wrapper Started signature:
STATUS | wrapper | 2008/05/13 10:43:51 | --> Wrapper Started as Daemon
STATUS | wrapper | 2008/05/13 10:43:52 | Launching a JVM...
INFO | jvm 1 | 2008/05/13 10:43:57 | Wrapper Manager: JVM #1
INFO | jvm 1 | 2008/05/13 10:43:57 | Wrapper Manager: Registering shutdown hook
INFO | jvm 1 | 2008/05/13 10:43:57 | Wrapper Manager: Using wrapper
INFO | jvm 1 | 2008/05/13 10:43:57 | Calling native initialization method.
INFO | jvm 1 | 2008/05/13 10:43:57 | Inside native WrapperManager initialization method
INFO | jvm 1 | 2008/05/13 10:43:57 | Java Version : J2RE 1.4.2 IBM AIX build ca142-20070708 (SR9) (JIT enabled: jitc)
INFO | jvm 1 | 2008/05/13 10:43:57 | Java VM Vendor : IBM Corporation
:
allowing you to confirm the JVM version
In this case you would substitute:
indexOf("pattern") != -1 in place of: contains("pattern")
So to fix /teamworks/login.jsp in Teamworks 5.5.x, edit the login.jsp and put the following underneath the prolog include:
<%
// inserted to prevent direct accesses to login.jsp from causing problems
String agent = request.getHeader ("User-Agent");
boolean skip = false;
if (agent!=null && (agent.indexOf("Jakarta Commons") != -1)) {
// we need this because of redirect-login's use of jakarta commons
skip = true;
}
if (session.isNew() && !skip) {
//out.println ("Session is new<br>");
String referer = request.getHeader("Referer");
//out.println ("referer:" + referer + "<br>");
//out.println ("request URI:" + request.getRequestURI() + "<br>");
// The referer is sometimes null but should be so we get it from the request attributes instead
String servletRequest = (String) request.getAttribute ("javax.servlet.forward.request_uri");
if (servletRequest != null) {
if (servletRequest.indexOf("login.jsp") == -1) {
String queryString = (String) request.getAttribute ("javax.servlet.forward.query_string");
if (queryString != null) {
servletRequest += "?" + queryString;
}
referer = servletRequest;
//out.println ("referer =" + servletRequest + "<br>");
}
}
if (referer == null) {
//out.println ("send redirect to home");
response.sendRedirect("cs_main.lsw");
}
else {
//out.println ("send redirect to:" + referer);
response.sendRedirect(referer);
}
}
%>
To fix /portal/login.do in Teamworks 5.5.x, edit /portal/login.jsp and put this right after the taglibs on the top of the page:
<%
if (session.isNew()) {
//out.println ("Session is new<br>");
String referer = request.getHeader("Referer");
//out.println ("referer:" + referer + "<br>");
//out.println ("request URI:" + request.getRequestURI() + "<br>");
// The referer is sometimes null but should be so we get it from the request attributes instead
String servletRequest = (String) request.getAttribute ("javax.servlet.forward.request_uri");
if (servletRequest != null) {
if (servletRequest.indexOf("login.do") == -1) {
String queryString = (String) request.getAttribute ("javax.servlet.forward.query_string");
if (queryString != null) {
servletRequest += "?" + queryString;
}
referer = servletRequest;
//out.println ("referer =" + servletRequest + "<br>");
}
}
if (referer == null) {
//out.println ("send redirect to home");
response.sendRedirect("jsp/getSavedSearch.do");
}
else {
//out.println ("send redirect to:" + referer);
response.sendRedirect(referer);
}
}
%>
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Historical Number
343
Product Synonym
Teamworks TW Lombardi
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Document Information
More support for:
WebSphere Lombardi Edition
Software version:
6.1, 6.0.1
Operating system(s):
AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, Windows
Document number:
139403
Modified date:
15 June 2018
UID
swg21439782
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