You will configure Apache to handle SSL. You will configure Apache to load mod_jk as a DSO. You will configure your SSL virtual host in httpd.conf to forward JSP and servlet requests to Tomcat via the AJP connector which, in a default Tomcat install, is enabled by default on port 8009. This is all covered extensively in the documentation and the archives, it comes up frequently.
John
Carlos Oliva wrote:
Thank you very much for your reponse. Probably we will want to take advantage of Apache SSL and configure it to relay requests to Tomcat instead of using Tomcat as "stand-alone". To do this, do I just need to configure Apache and add the appropriate mappings or must I also install the mod_jk (Apache 1.3 and Tomcat 4.0.x)?
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From: John Turner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 1:24 PM
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: Re: Running servlet via SSL???
Carlos Oliva wrote:
However, I see the welcome screen of Tomcat if I use http://....:8080 but not if I use https:....:8080 or any other combination of ports and
http or https. Furthermore, servlets run via http://....:8080/.... , but not https://... Or http://....:8443/...
If anything, it would be https://...:8443
From this, I am concluding that Apache is set to run with http or
https,
that Tomcat is configured as "stand alone" -- not via ssl.
Right, but Tomcat's SSL status is irrelevant if you're using Apache and a connector. Apache and Tomcat do not "speak" SSL when communicating with each other. If you're using SSL with Apache + Tomcat, the only SSL configuration is done on the Apache side. You have to remember to add the appropriate URI mappings for your connector to the SSL virtual host in httpd.conf.
So, since I have JDK1.4.x installed, I am assuming that I just need to create the right certificates and configure the server.xml file for
tomcat to enable Tomcat to work with ssl in stand alone mode. Right?
Right, but again, this is not needed if you have Apache set to do SSL, unless you want to do testing using Tomcat alone.
Tomcat SSL HOWTO: http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/ssl-howto.html
John
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