Getting a semi-blank page after logging into WEM Framework (Doc ID 1520317.1)

Last updated on JULY 10, 2024

Applies to:

Symptoms

Getting a semi-blank page after logging into WEM Framework with no options (sites or application) to choose from.

In the HTTP request/response headers of this login request, non-200 response is observed when making a REST call for the user's information.

For example:

#1 500 Internal Server Error

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http://hostname:port/sites/REST/users/fwadmin

GET /sites/REST/users/fwadmin HTTP/1.1
Host: hostname:port
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0
Accept: application/json
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: keep-alive
Pragma: auth-redirect=false
Content-Type: application/json
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
Referer: http://hostname:port/sites/wem/fatwire/wem/Welcome?ticket=ST-2-Tb3YeAsGcqIWXokmP7vK-cas-hostname-1
Cookie: SelectedSite=AdminSite; __utma=36119423.1543288213.1350608402.1354570168.1354824481.34; __utmz=36119423.1350608402.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none); __utma=11864496.411848919.1317646621.1326383049.1326385899.5; CFID=18868250; CFTOKEN=59003349; __unam=c5ed6f-1365493282e-dc165c4-2; is_returning=1; oracle.uix=0^^GMT-5:00; __utmc=36119423; fw_wemcontext_username=fwadmin; fw_wemcontext_user=uid=fwadmin,ou=people,dc=fatwire,dc=com; fw_cookienames_cookie=fw_cookienames_cookie=/&fw_wemcontext_username=/&fw_wemcontext_user=/&fw_wemcontext_locale=/; fw_wemcontext_locale=en_US; JSESSIONID=5951A54D5512D2B359A1635B8F4F08E4

HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 19:43:13 GMT
Connection: close
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Another possible symptom is that when making the REST call - http://hostname:port/sites/REST/users/fwadmin - directly in a browser, the following error is observed in futuretense.txt/sites.log:

#2 403 Forbidden

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http://LB_or_webserver_host/sites/REST/users/fwadmin

GET /sites/REST/users/fwadmin HTTP/1.1
Pragma auth-redirect=false
Cookie JSESSIONID=22pwXXTbpjPyTqnTKR4DNQSnywJChwL1XYXLvGjjHnnhfKv9PzFz!-1233886778
Accept-Encoding gzip, deflate, sdch
Host LB_or_webserver_host
Accept-Language en-us
User-Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/52.0.2743.116 Safari/537.36
Content-Type application/json
Accept application/json
Cache-Control no-cache
X-Requested-With XMLHttpRequest
Proxy-Connection keep-alive
Referer http://LB_or_webserver_host/sites/wem/fatwire/wem/Welcome?ticket=ST-419-f6ucFODeeWdogonps5Ke-cas-hostname-1
enableOracleAkamaiDebug summary

HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
Content-Length 22
Server BigIP
Proxy-Connection Keep-Alive

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Directly hitting the REST URLs in browser on LB or Web Server returns 403 as well, but the REST requests work on application server directly.

Changes

Possible changes:

#1 The environment in question was just upgraded from 7.5.x to 7.6.2 and WEM was installed during this upgrade.

#2 The environment was configured to access via a LB or Web Server.

Cause

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