The SSO domain is used when setting HTTP authentication cookies in a user's browser. If this attribute is not correct, single sign-on (SSO) will not work when the user switches between applications. |
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Overview
When developing on your local machine, you should set the domain to localhost.
Setting the SSO Domain
To specify the domain,
- Log in to the Crowd Administration Console.
- Click the 'Administration' tab in the top navigation bar.
- The 'General Options' screen will appear. Type the new domain into the 'SSO Domain' field.
- Click the 'Update' button.
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Screenshot: 'General Options'
Setting the SSO Domain when Crowd is behind a Proxy Server
If Crowd is being run behind a proxy server, before setting the SSO domain value, make sure that the domain specified in the proxy (that is currently being used to access the Crowd console) was specified in the Tomcat connector proxyName attribute. Example:
File: Apache-Tomcat/conf/server.xml
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<Connector acceptCount="100" connectionTimeout="20000" disableUploadTimeout="true" enableLookups="false"
maxHttpHeaderSize="8192" maxSpareThreads="75" maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25"
port="8095" redirectPort="8443" useBodyEncodingForURI="true"
proxyName="mycompany.com" />
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Notes
- Avoiding problems with old cookie versions. In order to avoid problems with hosts or domains defined in old cookie versions, after setting the SSO Domain in Crowd, log out of Crowd and the integrated applications and delete all the web browser cookies.
- SSO domain. The 'SSO Domain' field will accept only values based on the domain that is used to access the Crowd console. For instance, if you are using 'www.mycrowd.com/crowd/console' to access the console in the web browser, this field will accept the following values:
- Empty
- mycrowd.com
- .mycrowd.com
If you enter any other value, Crowd will show an error message: The supplied domain is invalid.
- IP addresses. SSO will not operate when sites are accessed using IP addresses rather than domain names. This is a limitation of the cookie technology implemented in web browsers.
RELATED TOPICS
Overview of SSO
Configuring Trusted Proxy Servers
Crowd Documentation