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Basic Authentication creating a Welcome site

I have a TomcatServer with a RDF4J Triplestore. Basic Authentication is active on the whole server and the Triplestore. As soon i go to one of the site´s i get ask for a username and password in a popup - as intended.

Now i was wondering if it would be possible to create a "Welcome" Page on that same Tomcat. What would be "public" for everyone. With some Information and a login for users. I found lots of tutorials and how to on sending the login over the url and Httpreqest and so on.

What would be a good way to do that ? Creating a page somewhere else ? With a login Feld and than going on the actual site ?

Or "deaktivate" BA for the Welcome Site only ? Is there a way to do that ?

Thanks for your input and time.

Solution

  • The soulution for this problem is: Form based Authentication. There your free to create a Login page and a error page. And it completly removes the Popup window also.