1. Home
  2. Support
Article - CS422982

The user account fails to be authenticated by Apache web server in Windchill

Modified: 18-Jul-2024   


Applies To

  • Windchill PDMLink 11.1 to 13.0

Description

  • Did the following to configure Apache to use Active Directory for authenticating the users :
  1. In app-Windchill-AuthProvider.xml  file  at HTTPServer/conf/ folder  ,    provided the Active Directory information :
For example :

<Provider>
<ldapUrl>ldap://<AD hostname>:389/OU=Users,OU=SUPPORT,DC=PTC,DC=COM</ldapUrl>
…
…
</Provider>
 
  1. Run “ant -f webAppConfig.xml regenWebAppConf” to regenerate Apache configuration files
  2. Restart Apache
  • The user  from Active Directory  cannot be authenticated successfully  from windchill basic login prompt after above 

 
This is a printer-friendly version of Article 422982 and may be out of date. For the latest version click CS422982