Spring authentication won't work - spring-security

Question

So I'm trying to create spring authentication using hibernate. I've checked out probably all of the tutorials about this issue that are available on the internet and yet I seem to be missing something, because when I press the submit button in my form, no authentication is performed and I don't get redirected where I was supposed to be redirected...
This is my security configuration:
<bean id='userDetailsService' class='fi.social.web.services.UserDetailsServiceImpl'></bean>
<security:http auto-config="true">
<security:form-login login-page="/" default-target-url="/welcome"
authentication-failure-url="/loginfailed" />
</security:http>
<bean id='daoAuthenticationProvider' class='org.springframework.security.authentication.dao.DaoAuthenticationProvider'>
<property name='userDetailsService' ref='userDetailsService' />
</bean>
<bean id='authenticationManager' class='org.springframework.security.authentication.ProviderManager'>
<property name='providers'>
<list>
<ref local='daoAuthenticationProvider' />
</list>
</property>
</bean>
<security:authentication-manager>
<security:authentication-provider user-service-ref='userDetailsService'>
<security:password-encoder hash='plaintext' />
</security:authentication-provider>
</security:authentication-manager>
and my JSP page:
<form method="post" name="loginForm" action="<c:url value='j_spring_security_check' />">
<table style="position:absolute; right:15px;">
<tr>
<td><input type="text" name="j_username" placeholder="<fmt:message key="user.usernameOrEmail"/>"/></td>
<td><input type="password" name="j_password" placeholder="<fmt:message key="user.password"/>"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" style="color: white; text-align:right">
<input type="checkbox" name="remember" /><fmt:message key="user.remember" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 15px; display:inline;" value="<fmt:message key="user.logIn"/>" />
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
Still, for some reason, when I submit the form I go to
http://127.0.0.1:8080/social/j_spring_security_check;jsessionid=C00D6F0CA27E3B359A9B04B8FADDD87F
even though the spring is supposed to know that my form is there and that it should process the parameters...
So what am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Have you tried to set up your login form just using <form method="post" name="loginForm" action='#{request.contextPath}/j_spring_security_check'>
Also there is one odd thing on your configuration (but from what you are telling that is not the problem right now):
It's that you are declaring two authentication managers:
<security:authentication-manager>,
<bean id='authenticationManager' class='org.springframework.security.authentication.ProviderManager'>
Try removing
<security:authentication-manager>
<security:authentication-provider user-service-ref='userDetailsService'>
<security:password-encoder hash='plaintext' />
</security:authentication-provider>
</security:authentication-manager>