How to save login session after browser window closed

Question

I would like to configure my applications (Crucible & Fisheye, Confluence, Jira, Bamboo all of which use Crowd with the SSO option) to persist their login information across having the browser window closed. Is this possible?

I have verified that cookies are not being auto deleted by the browser when the window is closed however the sessions aren't persisting. I'm not seeing a ready way to address this in the documentation. I have already increased the session timeout to one day which should be the frequency my users need to log in.

Each application is running on a dedicated box, mostly Linux based. The context for all applications (other than bamboo) is set to be the root.

Tim_Brigham · Answer

My applications each have a dedicated server to support them and none are using Apache as a front end.  As such I specifically want to keep the context path as root for these hosts. Any other suggestions?

William Zanchet · Answer

Hi Tim,

Actually this problem is related with the context path. Basically it seems that all the requests are coming from one host. For example, http://localhost:8085 -> Confluence http://localhost:8090 -> JIRA http://localhost:8095 -> Bamboo.

We have to create a context path, making Confluence be like this: http://localhost:8085/Confluence JIRA: http://localhost:8090/JIRA, that why Crowd will know which cookie to get.

To create a context path for Confluence you should check this documentation: https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Using+Apache+with+mod_proxy

For Bamboo:
https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/BAMBOO/Changing+the+Root+Context+Path

For Fisheye:
https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/FISHEYE/Configuring+the+FishEye+web+server

For JIRA:
https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Integrating+JIRA+with+Apache

I hope this helps.

Cheers,

WZ