-> Can you provide a stacktrace with more details? Not really... catalina.out shows nothing.. just ends after these few entries.. I have to kill -9 the java process afterwords. INFO: Deploying configuration descriptor ROOT.xml Mar 3, 2011 9:07:13 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start SEVERE: Error listenerStart Mar 3, 2011 9:07:13 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start SEVERE: Context [] startup failed due to previous errors Mar 3, 2011 9:07:13 AM org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader clearReferencesJdbc SEVERE: The web application [] registered the JDBC driver [com.mysql.jdbc.Driver] but failed to unregister it when the web application was stopped. To prevent a memory leak, the JDBC Driver has been forcibly unregistered. I've looked aimlessly for the xwiki.log file but can not locate it. I've installed the log4j.properties file but seems to give me no more logging than without it. Perhaps I should try trunk.. I'm using 2.7 now @Thomas .. basically my jar build follows just as any of the examples at the contrib/sandbox/authenticators.. It just wont load and the wiki never fully starts up. ------ thanks kevin.foote On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote: -> On 03/02/2011 07:17 PM, Kevin P. Foote wrote: -> > -> > Hi all, -> > -> > I'm trying to extend the XWikiAuthServiceImpl as described here[1][2] to -> > make use of local SSO. -> > -> > Here are the steps I'm following but xwiki will not startup.. Do I have -> > somethings out of place in my steps? -> > -> > 1. Place my jar in ${XWIKI_HOME}/WEB-INF/lib jar named org.my.authenticator -> > -> > 2. Edit ${XWIKI_HOME/WEB-INF/xwiki.cfg inserting -> > xwiki.authentication.authclass=org.my.authenticator.UserAuth -> > -> > 3. Start xwiki .. this fails! -> -> Can you provide a stacktrace with more details? -> -> > Do I have the jar in the correct place? -> -> Yes. -> -> > Do I need to tell xwiki to enable the use of this "new" jar? -> -> Jars don't need to be registered, but the authenticator does (which you -> did, step 2 abouve). -> -> > My code does not do anything of importance right now.. It gets a Log -> > object and writes one entry. -> -> Can't help more without a stacktrace... -> -> > -> > [1] http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/AdminGuide/Authentication -> > [2] -> > http://svn.xwiki.org/svnroot/xwiki/platform/core/trunk/xwiki-core/src/main/j... -> > -> -> -- -> Sergiu Dumitriu -> http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ -> _______________________________________________ -> users mailing list -> [email protected] -> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users ->