Hi William,
I recently had to do a similar task. My solution was to proxy
Tomcat with and Apache httpd instance via AJP/JK. Within Apache you
now have a fair number of flexible tools that allow you to modify URLs
as they pass through. mod_rewrite is especially helpful here to use
to fake out Tomcat.
Mike
On Aug 5, 2009, at 10:33 PM, William Angus wrote:
Hi,
I am currently trying to disable the use of https on the webtools/
admin side of ofbiz so that we can use access control to pass users
to the appropriate location within our network.
Our system will consist of SSL terminated behind our router/firewall
on the proxy server prior to the proxy forwarding to the ofbiz
application servers. https will be used until the traffic hits the
proxy where it is decrypted using stunnel or similar. Once decrypted
we will use the http-based ACLs to pass the traffic to the
appropriate login instance.
Problem is, I seem to be unable to force the use of http only within
our test environment.
Currently the test environment we have been looking at this with is
trunk-2009-07-21-v796194 using embedded Tomcat but we would be
looking to running a full Tomcat install on a production system.
To date I have tried changing the settings of url.properties to
port.https.enabled=N
and
force.http.host=Y
also have looked at server.xml in the tomcat6 section and just for a
test changed all 8443 to 8080 however when the following url was tried
http://server-name:8080/webtools/login
it changed back to https://.......:8443/....
I was wondering if there was anything that I have missed or if there
is a specific file/entry that holds the configuration settings for
webtools/login.
I haven't had much experience of configuring Tomcat or OfBiz (past
database setup and initial install) as until recently my focus has
been elsewhere.
Regards
William Angus
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