Here's the solution to my problem, to get it into the archives for the
next person: In server.xml, inside the 'host' element, I added an alias
element with the domain name of the computer.
<alias>www.host.domain.com</alias>
Joan
Joan Friedman wrote:
> hi all,
>
> Thank you to anyone who helps me with this - I could use some new
> approaches.
>
> Access to my servlet through ssl is blocked unless I'm accessing through
> 'localhost', with an error page displayed saying 'access denied by access
> control list'.
>
> Here is what I've done so far: I've read tomcat's docs about ssl and
> security,
> searched google and the tomcat-user mailing list archives, and of course
> tomcat's logs. I added a security debug value to
> CATALINA_OPTS ("-D.java.security.debug=all"). I commented out the memory
> realm
> in tomcat's server.xml, and commented out the apache connector and service.
> None of that solved the problem.
>
> I'm using tomcat 4.0.4, standalone, with windows 2000 service pack 2.
> I configured ssl to work on port 1234 and non-ssl to run on port 80.
> As long as all my access is through localhost
> (http://localhost/servletname/whatever), both ssl and non-ssl work
> just fine. Access through the host's domain name or ipaddress works ok for
> non-ssl, both locally and from another machine. When I try to access the
> ssl
> pages using the host's domain name or ipaddress (rather than
> 'localhost'), I get
> this message in mozilla 1.1
> Forbidden
> You were denied access because:
> Access denied by access control list.
>
> thanks for any help,
>
> Joan Friedman
>
>
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