WebApps Authorization Issue

Camunda 7 Topics Discussion & Questions
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Hello, I have a problem with WebApps Authorization when disabling CsrfPreventionFilter on springboot application, I already create CsrfAutoConfiguration (following this thread How to disable CsrfPreventionFilter? - #9 by Wesley_Connor) but another problem occured.

I can navigate to /app/admin/default/#/login but after I provide my credentials and click login I see the Admin page for a quick second, then it returns to the login screen. Looking a Chrome’s DevTools, I see the following XHR calls:

GET /api/engine/engine/
returns 200 with body [{“name”:“default”}]

POST /api/admin/auth/user/default/login/cockpit
returns 200 with body {“userId”:“alvent”,“authorizedApps”:[“admin”,“tasklist”,“welcome”,“cockpit”]}

GET /api/admin/auth/user/default
returns 404 with body {“timestamp”:“2021-03-16T03:21:59.107+0000”,“status”:404,“error”:“Not Found”,“message”:“Not Found”,“path”:"/api/admin/auth/user/default"}

GET /api/engine/engine/default/telemetry/configuration
returns 401 with body {“timestamp”:“2021-03-16T03:21:59.148+0000”,“status”:401,“error”:“Unauthorized”,“message”:“No message available”,“path”:"/api/engine/engine/default/telemetry/configuration"}

GET /api/engine/engine/default/task/count
returns 401 with body {“timestamp”:“2021-03-16T03:21:59.148+0000”,“status”:401,“error”:“Unauthorized”,“message”:“No message available”,“path”:"/api/engine/engine/default/task/count"}

GET /api/engine/engine/default/process-definition/count?latestVersion=true
returns 401 with body {“timestamp”:“2021-03-16T03:21:59.149+0000”,“status”:401,“error”:“Unauthorized”,“message”:“No message available”,“path”:"/api/engine/engine/default/process-definition/count"}

GET /api/engine/engine/default/process-definition/statistics?rootIncidents=true
returns 401 with body {“timestamp”:“2021-03-16T03:21:59.174+0000”,“status”:401,“error”:“Unauthorized”,“message”:“No message available”,“path”:"/api/engine/engine/default/process-definition/statistics"}

Can anyone please help me with this

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Hi Team,

I am also facing issue with 7.13 version.
Could you please help us in solving this issue.

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You need to explain more details about your setup with Camunda.
Database, Distribution, Clustering etc.

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@Niall
I am working with spring boot camunda 7.13
Defined my datasource (mysql)
I have dockerized by application.
And deploying it in kubernetes cluster and accessing my application with ingress controller
If i have1 replicas running at a point of time, it works

Moment i scale and say replica count increases , this authorization error is observed.

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You need to use sticky sessions when accessing the web apps.
If not, the first request will validate the login details for the users and the next request will go to a different node where the session details are not stored so the node will have no idea that the user is logged in.
Hope this helps.

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@Niall Thank you for your swift response.
Problem is i dont want to use sticky sessions, my user base is going to increase and dont know how many containers i will end up with.
Is there any other way? Can i use some other authorization or session management?

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Hi @anuraj,

as an alternative you try to setup session sharing between your spring-boot-applications: Architecture Overview | docs.camunda.org

Hope this helps, Ingo