"PeterJ" wrote : | You do realize that there is already ROOT.war at deploy/jboss-web.deployer? I wonder what kind of conflicts you are running into between these two... | I'm familiar with it but ... well it's a long story that involves other people. We haven't noticed any conflicts using 4.0.4. (where ROOT.war is under jbossweb-tomcat55.sar) and we've been using that version of jboss for 5+ years. "PeterJ" wrote : | What is the exact URL you are entering? | i'm accessing it via this href: | <a href="/protected">protected</a> | "PeterJ" wrote : | Also, are you saying that the browser is not displaying the login dialog? If not, what browser | Yep. i'm using IE. My ultimate goal is to upgrade to 4.2 so I can do programmatic login/logout using WebAuthentication. thanks for your help Peter. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4170681#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...