RESOLVED: How to perform redirection in Tomcat standalone.
When you install MT 7.1 and let it install Tomcat standalone, you have a: Tomcat_base_folder/webapps/ROOT folder. In that folder lies the default index.html page, which is the one that is shown when browsing to http://servername. BTW, the default index.html page for Tomcat bundled with MidTier is a page that simply states Tomcat is running Simply rename this file (e.g. index.html.orig), then create a new index.html file and insert the following: html head meta http-equiv=refresh content=0;URL=http://WebServerName:port/ContextPath/forms/ARServ erName/FormName /head body /body /html In my case, for the URL I put http://webservername/arsys/home. Ben -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mac McMillan Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 6:01 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: How to perform redirection in Tomcat standalone. Ben, Try this link from Tomcat Wiki. You didn't state which webserver you plan to use. In apache, just replace the default index.htm* with the same snippet shown here, it works just as good. http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/HowTo#head-e82228c43a0ce77f71ebe64fc99ced3 3c9506ffe At any rate, it's a starting place. Your mileage will vary... ==Mac On 9/27/07, Watson, Benjamin A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** List, Recently, we've been toying around with MidTier 7.1 RKM under Tomcat standalone. So far, so good. However, we do have one issue to address before calling this a complete success in replicating our current environment. Under our current environment (IIS/ServletExec), we perform a redirect under IIS for all requests coming to the server itself to get the user to the Remedy login page. For example, typically a user would have to enter: http://servername/arsys/home to get to the Remedy login page. However, under IIS (at the request of our customer) we did a redirect such that the user can now just go to http://servername and will be taken to the Remedy login page. How would I accomplish this under Tomcat standalone? Thank you, Ben __20060125___This posting was submitted with HTML in it___ ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:Where the Answers Are ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:Where the Answers Are
Re: RESOLVED: How to perform redirection in Tomcat standalone.
Just went through the pain of doing this with SSL for a deployment. You can also add an additional content line for localhost redirection as well as the actual server name content line i.e. meta http-equiv=refresh content=0;URL=http://servername.com/arsys/home; meta http-equiv=refresh content=0;URL=http://localhost/arsys/home; In my case I changed the default ports to 80 and 443(SSL) so no need for clients to put in port numbers. Port 80 in our case also redirects to SSL 443 by default so the system is always using SSL encryption. Dan -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Watson, Benjamin A. Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 9:25 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: RESOLVED: How to perform redirection in Tomcat standalone. When you install MT 7.1 and let it install Tomcat standalone, you have a: Tomcat_base_folder/webapps/ROOT folder. In that folder lies the default index.html page, which is the one that is shown when browsing to http://servername. BTW, the default index.html page for Tomcat bundled with MidTier is a page that simply states Tomcat is running Simply rename this file (e.g. index.html.orig), then create a new index.html file and insert the following: html head meta http-equiv=refresh content=0;URL=http://WebServerName:port/ContextPath/forms/ARServ erName/FormName /head body /body /html In my case, for the URL I put http://webservername/arsys/home. Ben -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mac McMillan Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 6:01 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: How to perform redirection in Tomcat standalone. Ben, Try this link from Tomcat Wiki. You didn't state which webserver you plan to use. In apache, just replace the default index.htm* with the same snippet shown here, it works just as good. http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/HowTo#head-e82228c43a0ce77f71ebe64fc99ced3 3c9506ffe At any rate, it's a starting place. Your mileage will vary... ==Mac On 9/27/07, Watson, Benjamin A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** List, Recently, we've been toying around with MidTier 7.1 RKM under Tomcat standalone. So far, so good. However, we do have one issue to address before calling this a complete success in replicating our current environment. Under our current environment (IIS/ServletExec), we perform a redirect under IIS for all requests coming to the server itself to get the user to the Remedy login page. For example, typically a user would have to enter: http://servername/arsys/home to get to the Remedy login page. However, under IIS (at the request of our customer) we did a redirect such that the user can now just go to http://servername and will be taken to the Remedy login page. How would I accomplish this under Tomcat standalone? Thank you, Ben __20060125___This posting was submitted with HTML in it___ ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:Where the Answers Are ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:Where the Answers Are ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:Where the Answers Are
Re: RESOLVED: How to perform redirection in Tomcat standalone.
What did you have to do to Tomcat to get it to run SSL? Christopher Strauss, Ph.D. Remedy Database Administrator University of North Texas Computing Center http://remedy.unt.edu/helpdesk/ -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Gennidakis Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 9:19 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: RESOLVED: How to perform redirection in Tomcat standalone. Just went through the pain of doing this with SSL for a deployment. You can also add an additional content line for localhost redirection as well as the actual server name content line i.e. meta http-equiv=refresh content=0;URL=http://servername.com/arsys/home; meta http-equiv=refresh content=0;URL=http://localhost/arsys/home; In my case I changed the default ports to 80 and 443(SSL) so no need for clients to put in port numbers. Port 80 in our case also redirects to SSL 443 by default so the system is always using SSL encryption. Dan -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Watson, Benjamin A. Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 9:25 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: RESOLVED: How to perform redirection in Tomcat standalone. When you install MT 7.1 and let it install Tomcat standalone, you have a: Tomcat_base_folder/webapps/ROOT folder. In that folder lies the default index.html page, which is the one that is shown when browsing to http://servername. BTW, the default index.html page for Tomcat bundled with MidTier is a page that simply states Tomcat is running Simply rename this file (e.g. index.html.orig), then create a new index.html file and insert the following: html head meta http-equiv=refresh content=0;URL=http://WebServerName:port/ContextPath/for ms/ARServ erName/FormName /head body /body /html In my case, for the URL I put http://webservername/arsys/home. Ben -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mac McMillan Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 6:01 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: How to perform redirection in Tomcat standalone. Ben, Try this link from Tomcat Wiki. You didn't state which webserver you plan to use. In apache, just replace the default index.htm* with the same snippet shown here, it works just as good. http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/HowTo#head-e82228c43a0ce77f71ebe 64fc99ced3 3c9506ffe At any rate, it's a starting place. Your mileage will vary... ==Mac On 9/27/07, Watson, Benjamin A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** List, Recently, we've been toying around with MidTier 7.1 RKM under Tomcat standalone. So far, so good. However, we do have one issue to address before calling this a complete success in replicating our current environment. Under our current environment (IIS/ServletExec), we perform a redirect under IIS for all requests coming to the server itself to get the user to the Remedy login page. For example, typically a user would have to enter: http://servername/arsys/home to get to the Remedy login page. However, under IIS (at the request of our customer) we did a redirect such that the user can now just go to http://servername and will be taken to the Remedy login page. How would I accomplish this under Tomcat standalone? Thank you, Ben __20060125___This posting was submitted with HTML in it___ __ __ ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:Where the Answers Are __ __ ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:Where the Answers Are __ _ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:Where the Answers Are ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:Where the Answers Are
Re: RESOLVED: How to perform redirection in Tomcat standalone.
SSL isn't too bad really. 1. Get familiar with Java keytool with regards to creating key-pairs, generating certificate requests, and installing certificates. At some point, you'll need to use keytool to generate a keypair to create your initial java keystore. IMPORTANT: make not of all passwords/etc used for this as that information will be invaluable later on. 2. Once you have a keystore setup, you can proceed to configure Tomcat. The keystore can be setup with only a self-signed cert or with a cert signed by a trusted CA. Open Tomcat_root/conf/server.xml If you are using a default Tomcat install, look for a Connector section for port 8080. In my case, I changed this section to port 80. Below that section, is another connector which has been commented out. This is the connector to setup for SSL. By default, the port is 8443. I changed mine to 443 (the standard SSL port). Here is what my 443 connector config looks like: Connector port=443 scheme=https secure=true keystoreFile=path_to_your_java_keystore keystorePass=password_used_to_create_initial_keystore sslProtocol=TLS maxSpareThreads=75 maxThreads=150 keyAlias=tomcat minSpareThreads=25 clientAuth=false /Connector Some Notes: For the sslProtocol, you can use SSL if you wish For the keyAlias, this is the alias of the self-signed or imported signed server certificate. BIG NOTE: according to Tomcat documentation, the password for the key MUST be the same as the password for the keystore. Keep this in mind when generating your first key-pair to create the keystore. If you go to the Tomcat website, there are some good notes on setting up SSL. Ben -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of strauss Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 9:23 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: RESOLVED: How to perform redirection in Tomcat standalone. What did you have to do to Tomcat to get it to run SSL? Christopher Strauss, Ph.D. Remedy Database Administrator University of North Texas Computing Center http://remedy.unt.edu/helpdesk/ -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Gennidakis Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 9:19 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: RESOLVED: How to perform redirection in Tomcat standalone. Just went through the pain of doing this with SSL for a deployment. You can also add an additional content line for localhost redirection as well as the actual server name content line i.e. meta http-equiv=refresh content=0;URL=http://servername.com/arsys/home; meta http-equiv=refresh content=0;URL=http://localhost/arsys/home; In my case I changed the default ports to 80 and 443(SSL) so no need for clients to put in port numbers. Port 80 in our case also redirects to SSL 443 by default so the system is always using SSL encryption. Dan -Original Message- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Watson, Benjamin A. Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 9:25 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: RESOLVED: How to perform redirection in Tomcat standalone. When you install MT 7.1 and let it install Tomcat standalone, you have a: Tomcat_base_folder/webapps/ROOT folder. In that folder lies the default index.html page, which is the one that is shown when browsing to http://servername. BTW, the default index.html page for Tomcat bundled with MidTier is a page that simply states Tomcat is running Simply rename this file (e.g. index.html.orig), then create a new index.html file and insert the following: html head meta http-equiv=refresh content=0;URL=http://WebServerName:port/ContextPath/for ms/ARServ erName/FormName /head body /body /html In my case, for the URL I put http://webservername/arsys/home. Ben -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mac McMillan Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 6:01 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: How to perform redirection in Tomcat standalone. Ben, Try this link from Tomcat Wiki. You didn't state which webserver you plan to use. In apache, just replace the default index.htm* with the same snippet shown here, it works just as good. http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/HowTo#head-e82228c43a0ce77f71ebe 64fc99ced3 3c9506ffe At any rate, it's a starting place. Your mileage will vary... ==Mac On 9/27/07, Watson, Benjamin A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** List, Recently, we've been toying around with MidTier 7.1 RKM under Tomcat standalone. So far, so good. However, we do have one issue to address before calling this a complete success in replicating our current environment. Under our current environment (IIS/ServletExec), we perform a redirect under IIS for all requests coming to the server itself to get the user
