Unable to display page on spring custom login page - spring

Question

I'm having problems trying to create a custom login page for Spring web application.
The default login form works normally.
But when I add
**<form-login login-page="/login" />**
the app runs without errors but "unable to display page" shows up.
Have you got any ideas?
Thanks
Here is my web.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" version="3.0">
<display-name>testweb</display-name>
<filter>
<filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<!--
- Loads the root application context of this web app at startup.
-->
<listener>
<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>
<!--
- Location of the XML file that defines the root application context
- Applied by ContextLoaderListener.
-->
<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>
/WEB-INF/applicationContext-security.xml
</param-value>
</context-param>
<!-- Processes application requests -->
<servlet>
<servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
Here is my spring config file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.0.xsd
">
<!-- DispatcherServlet Context: defines this servlet's request-processing infrastructure -->
<!-- Scans within the base package of the application for #Components to configure as beans -->
<!-- #Controller, #Service, #Configuration, etc. -->
<context:component-scan base-package="myPACKAGE" />
<!-- Enables the Spring MVC #Controller programming model -->
<mvc:annotation-driven />
<!-- Resolve logical view names to .jsp resources in the /WEB-INF/views directory -->
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/views/" />
<property name="suffix" value=".jsp" />
</bean>
</beans>
Here is my spring security file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans:beans xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-3.1.xsd
">
<http auto-config="true">
<intercept-url pattern="/*" access="ROLE_USER" />
**<form-login login-page="/login" />**
</http>
<authentication-manager>
<authentication-provider>
<user-service>
<user name="myuser" password="mypwd" authorities="ROLE_USER" />
</user-service>
</authentication-provider>
</authentication-manager>
</beans:beans>
The custom login page is login.jsp inside WEB-INF/views/login.jsp

Answer 1

You need to give access for anonymous users to the login page. Add following snippet to your http element
<intercept-url pattern="/login*" access="IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY" />
EDIT. Order is matter. It must be inserted before this line:
<intercept-url pattern="/*" access="ROLE_USER" />

Answer 2

your login - what is it? HTML? JSP? you need to write the URI of your login page (e.g. /login.html), and not just /login.
try to put your login page in a sub-dir (e.g. /login) that enables anonymous users to see it:
< http pattern="/login/**" security="none" />
and then
<security:form-login
login-page="/login/login.jsp"
...

Answer 3

You said you are using spring so I will assume you are using spring-mvc, have you added
<!-- selects a static view for rendering without the need for an explicit controller -->
<mvc:view-controller path="/login" view-name="login"/>
to your webmvc configuration.
Also to change the login page mapping you can add
<definition extends="default" name="/login">
<put-attribute name="body" value="/WEB-INF/views/login.jspx"/>
</definition>

Answer 4

This should do I guess.
<intercept-url pattern="/login.htm" access="permitAll()"/>
<form-login login-page="/login.htm"
authentication-failure-url = "/positionViewer/login.htm?login_error=1" />