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Form-based authenticator
The form-based authenticator presents a login form to the user. The login form must contain fields named j_username and j_password, and the submit action must be j_security_check. If the login fails, the user is redirected to an error page.
Class Name
- com.worklight.core.auth.ext.FormBasedAuthenticator
Parameters
| Parameter | Description |
| login-page | Path to the login page, relative to the web application context under the conf directory. A sample login.html file is provided under this directory when creating a Worklight project in the Worklight Studio.
The authenticator passes to the login page error messages. To display the error message, use the placeholder ${errorMessage} within the login page. |
| auth-redirect | If the login form is not stored locally in the web application, provide a URL to the login page in this parameter. WL server uses redirect to pass the login to the external domain. This parameter cannot be used together with the login-page parameter. |
<realm name="AppAuthRealm"
loginModule="DatabaseLoginModule">
<className> com.worklight.core.auth.ext.FormBasedAuthenticator </className>
<parameter name="login-page" value="login.html" />
</realm>
Parent Authentication configuration