Re: Advise on configuring SSL

2009-11-25 Thread Pid
On 25/11/2009 08:43, CBy wrote: Hi, In my current working environment, Tomcat 6.0.18 is behind Apache. I don't know why they chose this setup, because Apache only acts as a proxy, it doesn't host anything. I do have experience in setting up SSL for stand-alone Tomcat, but have no experience with

Re: Advise on configuring SSL

2009-11-25 Thread Cyrille Le Clerc
Hello CBy, My preference to handle SSL at the Apache Httpd level is to insert a header "x-forwarded-proto=http|https" in Apache with mod_header, to transmit the request in clear http to tomcat and then to intercept this "x-forwarded-proto" header in Tomcat with the RemoteIpValve. This val

Advise on configuring SSL

2009-11-25 Thread CBy
Hi, In my current working environment, Tomcat 6.0.18 is behind Apache. I don't know why they chose this setup, because Apache only acts as a proxy, it doesn't host anything. I do have experience in setting up SSL for stand-alone Tomcat, but have no experience with Apache whatsoever. Since I d