How to change the boarding station- IRCTC ticket

IRCTC portal has recently change their website look and feel. Earlier it was easy to select a different boarding station, if you are booking your ticket from station other than the boarding station. Some people are assuming this feature has been removed from http://irctc.co.in/ portal, but no, this service is still there just the appearance of the option has been changed.

There are two way to change the boarding station or boarding point of your journey.

1. While booking the ticket

When you select your itinerary and reach to fill the passenger information, on that same page right hand side along with journey information we have option to change the boarding station. You have to just click on the red text "Change Boarding Station?" and a new window will popup which will give you option to select your boarding point. Please refer the below screen shots. 

How to change boarding station

Change Boarding Station option IRCTC

choose your new boarding station

2. After ticket booking has been confirmed

After successfully bokking your ticket you may also change your boarding point or boarding station. To do so, go to my account >> my transactions >> booked ticket history select or click on the ticket for which you  wants to change the boarding point. Now click on Change boarding point option at the bottom of the ticket. Below is the screen shot for reference.

Change boarding point for a booked ticket.

Getting forbidden response for AEM login page

If  you are facing problem to access the AEM login page; /libs/granite/core/content/login.html and getting HTTPERROR 403, FORBIDDEN and in log you are getting below error message. Its means somehow you have updated the SlingAuthenticator configuration.

*INFO* [0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 [1402592178132] GET / HTTP/1.1] org.apache.sling.auth.core.impl.SlingAuthenticator getAnonymousResolver: Anonymous access not allowed by configuration - requesting credentials

*INFO* [0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 [1402592178132] GET / HTTP/1.1] org.apache.sling.auth.core.impl.SlingAuthenticator handleLoginFailure: Unable to authenticate anonymous user: Login Failure: all modules ignored

AEM login page forbidden

Resolution:

Step 1: Under the configuration "Apache Sling Authentication Service" verify the entry of login page in property Authentication Requirements (sling.auth.requirements) set with minus symbol [-/libs/granite/core/content/login]. If you found the correct entry then check the second step.

Step 2: We have another property sling.auth.anonymous.user under the same configuration. Somehow this property has been updated hence system is unable to open the login page which should be accessible to anonymous user. 

Explanation of sling.auth.anonymous.user property; it defines which user name to assume for anonymous requests, that is requests not providing credentials supported by any of the registered authentication handlers. If this property is missing or empty, the default is assumed which depends on the resource provider(s). Otherwise anonymous requests are handled with this user name. If the configured user name does not exist or is not allowed to access the resource data, anonymous requests may still be blocked. If anonymous access is not allowed, this property is ignored.

To fix this issue, go to AEM config manager [/system/console/configMgr] and search for "Apache Sling Authentication Service" or go directly using this link in your local AEM instance 
http://localhost:4502/system/console/configMgr/org.apache.sling.engine.impl.auth.SlingAuthenticator

But since, we are unable to login into the AEM, and without login we cant access the felix console(config manager). Hence we will upadte the config from crx-quickstart repository. The same config file we will find in our crx-quickstart folder under directory launchpad

\crx-quickstart\launchpad\config\org\apache\sling\engine\impl\auth

in this file if you see there is some value assign to property sling.auth.anonymous.user then make it empty like sling.auth.anonymous.user=""

Sample SlingAuthenticator.config file

La Ilaha Illallah

Khudi ka sirr-e-nihan la-ilaha-illallah 
Khudi hai tegh fasan la-ilaha-illallah 

ye daur apne barahim ki talash mein hai 
sanam-kada hai jahan la-ilaha-illallah 

kiya hai tu ne mata-e-ghurur ka sauda 
fareb-e-sud-o-ziyan la-ilaha-illallah 

ye mal-o-daulat-e-duniya ye rishta o paiwand 
butan-e-wahm-o-guman la-ilaha-illallah 

Khirad hui hai zaman o makan ki zunnari 
na hai zaman na makan la-ilaha-illallah 

ye naghma fasl-e-gul-o-lala ka nahin paband 
bahaar ho ki Khizan la-ilaha-illallah 

agarche but hain jamaat ki aastinon mein 
mujhe hai hukm-e-azan la-ilaha-illallah 

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ख़ुदी का सिर्र-ए-निहाँ ला-इलाहा-इल्लल्लाह 
ख़ुदी है तेग़ फ़साँ ला-इलाहा-इल्लल्लाह 

ये दौर अपने बराहीम की तलाश में है 
सनम-कदा है जहाँ ला-इलाहा-इल्लल्लाह 

किया है तू ने मता-ए-ग़ुरूर का सौदा 
फ़रेब-ए-सूद-ओ-ज़ियाँ ला-इलाहा-इल्लल्लाह 

ये माल-ओ-दौलत-ए-दुनिया ये रिश्ता ओ पैवंद 
बुतान-ए-वहम-ओ-गुमाँ ला-इलाहा-इल्लल्लाह 

ख़िरद हुई है ज़मान ओ मकाँ की ज़ुन्नारी 
न है ज़माँ न मकाँ ला-इलाहा-इल्लल्लाह 

ये नग़्मा फ़स्ल-ए-गुल-ओ-लाला का नहीं पाबंद 
बहार हो कि ख़िज़ाँ ला-इलाहा-इल्लल्लाह 

अगरचे बुत हैं जमाअत की आस्तीनों में 
मुझे है हुक्म-ए-अज़ाँ ला-इलाहा-इल्लल्लाह 

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خودی ہے تیغ فساں لا الہ الا اللہ 

یہ دور اپنے براہیم کی تلاش میں ہے 

صنم کدہ ہے جہاں لا الہ الا اللہ 

کیا ہے تو نے متاع غرور کا سودا 

فریب سود و زیاں لا الہ الا اللہ 

یہ مال و دولت دنیا یہ رشتہ و پیوند 

بتان وھم و گماں لا الہ الا اللہ 

خرد ہوئی ہے زمان و مکاں کی زناری 

نہ ہے زماں نہ مکاں لا الہ الا اللہ 

یہ نغمہ فصل گل و لالہ کا نہیں پابند 

بہار ہو کہ خزاں لا الہ الا اللہ 

اگرچہ بت ہیں جماعت کی آستینوں میں 

مجھے ہے حکم اذاں لا الہ الا اللہ