How-to guides

In these how-to guides, you will find how-to guides for performing the following tasks:

Configuration & Operation

Connect Identity Service

This how-to describes how to connect security.manager for OGC to the Identity Service so that you can bind policies to roles of authenticated users.

Change the data directory

This how-to describes how you can change the path of the data directory of security.manager for OGC.

Change the configuration directory

This how-to describes how you can change the path of the configuration directory from which security.manager for OGC reads its configuration.

Configure URL rewriting

This how-to describes how to disable URL rewriting in security.manager for OGC and let the secured service generate correct URLs itself.

Run security.manager for OGC without Tomcat

This how-to describes how you can run security.manager for OGC without Tomcat using a simple command from the command line.

Deploy security.manager for OGC web app under '/'

This how-to describes how you can make security.manager for OGC available on the root context path, i.e. under https://secman.example.com/ instead of https://secman.example.com/secman-ogc/.

Secure services

Reference roles from an identity provider in policies

This how-to describes how you can reference roles from an Identity Provider in policies when you have connected security.manager for OGC with an Identity Service.

Allow access to arbitrary paths on the target server

This how-to describes how you can use a service of type FORWARD to allow access to arbitrary paths on the target server via security.manager for OGC.

Protect an arbitrary service

This how-to describes how you can protect services for which security.manager for OGC does not offer fine-grained access control. These can be service types such as OGC API Features services, Web Map Tile Services (WMTS), or other arbitrary HTTP service endpoints.

Protect WMS and WFS with the same path

This how-to describes how to protect multiple services with different service types, e.g. WMS and WFS, on the same path.

Protect service requiring authentication

This how-to describes how to protect a service that requires HTTP Basic Authentication for access.

Use services

Use a protected service in QGIS

This how-to describes how to use a service secured with security.manager for OGC in QGIS.

Use a protected service in ArcGIS Pro

This how-to describes how to use a service secured with security.manager for OGC in ArcGIS Pro.