Getting a 404 when I try and submit to "/j_spring_security_check"

[laredotornado]

Hi,

I'm using Spring 3.1.1.RELEASE with the accompanying Spring security. I'm hoping there's something really obvious I'm missing because I repeatedly get 404s when I try and submit to my Spring security check URL -- "/j_spring_security_check". I want to use a custom authentication filter. Below is my Spring security config …

	<global-method-security pre-post-annotations="enabled">
	</global-method-security>

    <beans:bean id="pdUsernamePasswordUrlAuthenticationFilter" 
    	class="org.mainco.subco.myproject.security.subcoUsernamePasswordUrlAuthenticationFilter">
	    <beans:property name="filterProcessesUrl" value="/j_spring_security_check"/>
	    <beans:property name="authenticationManager" ref="authenticationManager"/>
	    <beans:property name="authenticationFailureHandler">
	        <beans:bean class="org.springframework.security.web.authentication.SimpleUrlAuthenticationFailureHandler">
	            <beans:property name="defaultFailureUrl" value="/pdregistration/loginfailure"/>
	        </beans:bean>
	    </beans:property>
    	<beans:property name="authenticationSuccessHandler">
			<beans:bean class="org.mainco.subco.myproject.security.web.authentication.PDRegistrationAuthenticationSuccessHandler"> 
				<beans:property name="defaultTargetUrl" value="/pdregistration/authenticate" />
			</beans:bean>
		</beans:property>
    </beans:bean>
    
	<beans:bean id="loginUrlAuthenticationEntryPoint"
		class="org.springframework.security.web.authentication.LoginUrlAuthenticationEntryPoint">
		<beans:property name="loginFormUrl" value="/login" />
	</beans:bean>

	<beans:bean id="subcoSecurityContextRepository"
		class="org.mainco.subco.myproject.security.subcoSecurityContextRepository" />

	<!--  Reg controller for PD -->
    <http pattern="/pdregistration/*" name="pdSecurity" auto-config="false" use-expressions="true" authentication-manager-ref="authenticationManager" access-denied-page="/denied" entry-point-ref="loginUrlAuthenticationEntryPoint">
		<custom-filter position="FORM_LOGIN_FILTER" ref="pdUsernamePasswordUrlAuthenticationFilter"/>
		<intercept-url pattern="/pdregistration/regfailure" access="hasAnyRole('Teacher')"/>
		<intercept-url pattern="/pdregistration/regsuccess" access="hasAnyRole('Teacher')"/>
		<intercept-url pattern="/pdregistration/errors/*" access="permitAll" />
		<logout invalidate-session="true" 
			logout-success-url="/logout" 
			logout-url="/j_spring_security_logout" />
	</http>
	
	<authentication-manager alias="authenticationManager" id="authenticationManager">
		<authentication-provider user-service-ref="sbdUserDetailsService">
			<password-encoder ref="passwordEncoder" />
		</authentication-provider>
	</authentication-manager>

Here is the Spring security filter in my web.xml file …

	<filter>
		<filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
		<filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy</filter-class>
	</filter>
	<filter-mapping>
		<filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
		<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
	</filter-mapping>

What else am I missing? Note that I define "j_spring_security_check" as the "filterProcessesUrl" of my "pdUsernamePasswordUrlAuthenticationFilter" filter.

The log entry I get is

09:33:29,134 WARN  [org.springframework.web.servlet.PageNotFound] (http--127.0.0.1-8080-4) No mapping found for HTTP request with URI [/myproject/j_spring_security_check] in DispatcherServlet with name 'myprojectDispatcher'

Thanks for any advice, - Dave

[Rob Winch]

What does the code for subcoUsernamePasswordUrlAuthenticationFilter look like? Did you add a debug point to the requiresAuthention method?