Custom HTTP 403 page not working in Spring Security

Question

I want to replace the default access denied page:

With my custom page and my approach was this:

@Configuration
@EnableWebSecurity
public class SecurityContextConfigurer extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {

    @Autowired
private UserDetailsService userDetailsService;

@Override
public void configure(WebSecurity web) throws Exception {
    web.ignoring().antMatchers("/resources/**");
}

@Override
protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {

    http.sessionManagement().maximumSessions(1)
            .sessionRegistry(sessionRegistry()).expiredUrl("/");
    http.authorizeRequests().antMatchers("/").permitAll()
            .antMatchers("/register").permitAll()
            .antMatchers("/security/checkpoint/for/admin/**").hasRole("ADMIN")
            .antMatchers("/rest/users/**").hasRole("ADMIN").anyRequest()
            .authenticated().and().formLogin().loginPage("/")
            .defaultSuccessUrl("/welcome").permitAll().and().logout()
            .logoutUrl("/logout");
}

@Bean
public SessionRegistry sessionRegistry() {
    return new SessionRegistryImpl();
}

@Bean
public AuthenticationProvider daoAuthenticationProvider() {
    DaoAuthenticationProvider daoAuthenticationProvider = new DaoAuthenticationProvider();
    daoAuthenticationProvider.setUserDetailsService(userDetailsService);

    return daoAuthenticationProvider;

}

@Bean
public ProviderManager providerManager() {

    List<AuthenticationProvider> arg0 = new CopyOnWriteArrayList<AuthenticationProvider>();
    arg0.add(daoAuthenticationProvider());

    return  new ProviderManager(arg0);

}

@Bean(name = "myAuthenticationManagerBean")
@Override
public AuthenticationManager authenticationManagerBean() throws Exception {
    return super.authenticationManagerBean();
}

@Override
protected AuthenticationManager authenticationManager() throws Exception {
    return providerManager();
}

    @Bean
    public ExceptionTranslationFilter exceptionTranslationFilter() {
        ExceptionTranslationFilter exceptionTranslationFilter = 
                new ExceptionTranslationFilter(new CustomAuthenticationEntryPoint());
        exceptionTranslationFilter.setAccessDeniedHandler(accessDeniedHandler());

        return exceptionTranslationFilter;
    }
    @Bean
    public AccessDeniedHandlerImpl accessDeniedHandler() {
        AccessDeniedHandlerImpl accessDeniedHandlerImpl = new 
                AccessDeniedHandlerImpl();
        accessDeniedHandlerImpl.setErrorPage("/page_403.jsp");
        System.out.println("ACCESS DENIED IS CALLED......");
        return accessDeniedHandlerImpl;
    }

    private class CustomAuthenticationEntryPoint implements AuthenticationEntryPoint{

        @Override
        public void commence(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response,
                AuthenticationException authenticationException) throws IOException,
                ServletException {

            response.sendError(HttpServletResponse.SC_FORBIDDEN,
                    "Access denied.");
        }

    }   

}

But with this config above I'm still not getting the job done and seeing the same

Are there more bean which must be injected for this purpose?

Answer 1

Disclaimer : this is not only solution, but a working one.

In this case my approach would be as simple as possible which is add this method in your SecurityContext

@Override
protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {

    http.sessionManagement().maximumSessions(1)
            .sessionRegistry(sessionRegistry()).expiredUrl("/");
    http.authorizeRequests().antMatchers("/").permitAll()
            .antMatchers("/register").permitAll()
            .antMatchers("/security/checkpoint/for/admin/**").hasRole("ADMIN")
            .antMatchers("/rest/users/**").hasRole("ADMIN").anyRequest()
            .authenticated().and().formLogin().loginPage("/")
            .defaultSuccessUrl("/welcome").permitAll().and().logout()
            .logoutUrl("/logout").and()
            .exceptionHandling().accessDeniedPage("/page_403");//this is what you have to do here to get job done.
}

Reference: Custom 403 Page in Spring Security .

Answer 2

As @M. Deinum pointed out, you should tell Spring Security how to incorporate these beans. Anyway, there is a much simpler way for what you're trying to achieve:

@Configuration
@EnableWebSecurity
public class SecurityContextConfigurer extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {
    // Rest omitted

    @Override
    protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
        http
                // The usual stuff
                .exceptionHandling()
                    .accessDeniedPage("/page_403.jsp")
                    .authenticationEntryPoint((request, response, authException) -> {
                        response.sendError(HttpServletResponse.SC_FORBIDDEN);
                    });
    }
}