Re: [ajug-members]: Tomcat and SSL

[Monosij Dutta-Roy <mdr_j2ee@yahoo.com>]

you will need to set up a certificate. i will send an
example of that later. look up cacerts on google on
how to create a dummy certificate using the java
certificate tool that comes with j2sdk.

monosij
--- Tom Boyce <tom.boyce@wellfound.com> wrote:
> I am attempting to set up my standalone Tomcat to
> test SSL connection in
> anticipation of setting up client X509 certificate
> authentication.  I am
> using Tomcat version 4.1 and JDK 1.4  I am using the
> following code in the
> server.xml file (which is already there, just
> uncomment it).  When I attempt
> to run Tomcat after doing this, the console window
> starts then just shuts
> down.  
> 
> <!-- Define a SSL Coyote HTTP/1.1 Connector on port
> 8443 -->
>    
>           <Connector
>
className="org.apache.coyote.tomcat4.CoyoteConnector"
>                port="8443" minProcessors="5"
> maxProcessors="75"
>                enableLookups="true"
> 	       acceptCount="100" debug="0" scheme="https"
> secure="true"
>                useURIValidationHack="false"
> disableUploadTimeout="true" >
>       <Factory
>
className="org.apache.coyote.tomcat4.CoyoteServerSocketFactory"
>                clientAuth="false" protocol="TLS" />
>     </Connector> 
> 
> I checked the jsse.jar file.  According to O'Reilly
> "Tomcat.." this jar file
> should be in the java_home/jre/lib/ext directory,
> but I found it one level
> up .../jre/lib  I actually copied this file into
> both directories with no
> obvious result - good or bad!
> 
> Does anyone have any experience in setting this up? 
> Is it possible to do
> running Tomcat as Standalone?  Please advise!
> 
> Tom Boyce
> 


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