# question on web crawl and forms authentication

**URL:** <https://discuss.codelibs.org/t/question-on-web-crawl-and-forms-authentication/807>\
**Category:** English:Fess\
**Created:** [August 31, 2017, 10:46pm UTC](https://discuss.codelibs.org/t/question-on-web-crawl-and-forms-authentication/807 "2017-08-31T22:46:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![discuss](https://discuss.codelibs.org/user_avatar/discuss.codelibs.org/discuss/32/298_2.png) [@discuss](https://discuss.codelibs.org/u/discuss)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2017, 10:46pm UTC](https://discuss.codelibs.org/t/question-on-web-crawl-and-forms-authentication/807/1 "2017-08-31T22:46:28Z")

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(from [github.com/jfabales](http://github.com/jfabales))  
Hi,

I just want to ask for general guidelines on how to configure a web crawl with forms authentication. How can I determine what URLs to write in the configuration and what parameters I need to configure? I wanted to configure web crawl for a jira site and some forum sites running in nginx and I can’t seem to properly configure them. The sites go through several redirects. Is there a way to get the values I need from a network monitor result?

Best regards,  
Joseph

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**Author:** ![discuss](https://discuss.codelibs.org/user_avatar/discuss.codelibs.org/discuss/32/298_2.png) [@discuss](https://discuss.codelibs.org/u/discuss)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2017, 12:41pm UTC](https://discuss.codelibs.org/t/question-on-web-crawl-and-forms-authentication/807/2 "2017-09-01T12:41:53Z")

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(from [github.com/marevol](http://github.com/marevol))  
See [example configurations](http://fess.codelibs.org/11.3/admin/webconfig-guide.html#redmine).  
To configure it, I think that you need to have enough HTML/HTTP knowledge.  
If you need commercial supports, please contact [support team](http://www.n2sm.net/en/support/fess_support.html).

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**Author:** ![discuss](https://discuss.codelibs.org/user_avatar/discuss.codelibs.org/discuss/32/298_2.png) [@discuss](https://discuss.codelibs.org/u/discuss)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 3:14am UTC](https://discuss.codelibs.org/t/question-on-web-crawl-and-forms-authentication/807/3 "2017-09-07T03:14:09Z")

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(from [github.com/jfabales](http://github.com/jfabales))  
Thanks for the reply.  
I’m still in the testing stage so I cannot really say right now if I need commercial support.  
I’ve already seen the documentation and from there it looks like parameters like token\_url, token\_name, token\_pattern, login\_url, login\_parameters, etc. are needed to configure web authentication. I guess I just want to know how to get the values needed for those parameters.

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**Author:** ![discuss](https://discuss.codelibs.org/user_avatar/discuss.codelibs.org/discuss/32/298_2.png) [@discuss](https://discuss.codelibs.org/u/discuss)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2017, 3:22am UTC](https://discuss.codelibs.org/t/question-on-web-crawl-and-forms-authentication/807/4 "2017-09-07T03:22:38Z")

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(from [github.com/marevol](http://github.com/marevol))  
To configure parameters, you need to check/understand HTML and HTTP(S) requests for the login page.