Saturday, December 08, 2007

Solution for OAM WebPass and WebGate in different directories

When installing the Oracle Access Manager WebGate and WebPass in different directories on Windows you will encounter some problems when it comes to forms-based authentication. The reason for this lies in the configuration of the IIS (oh - how I like Apache :-) .

The redirection to the forms based HTML login and its redirection can easily fail as the IIS is not aware of the different location of the other directory.

I solved this by changing the Virtual Directory settings in the IIS.

Here is a picture that will give you an idea where and how to do this: