Hi there! First of all, thanks for all your replies. I don't know
why, but I missed all your replies except the last of course. I'll
try to answer your questions.
What I need is to have the option to use SSL with Tomcat. Apache
httpd is not a necessity. There is no need to have an https
connection between Apache and Tomcat. I tried several setups in the
past weeks.
1) Tomcat standalone + SSL; this worked with 5.5, but not 6.0.
2) Apache 2.2 with SSL; couldn't get SSL working.
3) Apache 2.0 with SSL; this worked without Tomcat, and I had a
working certificate.
4) Apache 2.0 + mod_proxy to Tomcat; this worked, but not with SSL.
-- At this point I mailed the list.
5) Apache 2.0 in a new setup, with SSL, mod_proxy, and server.xml
slightly modified. This worked!
6) Apache 2.2 in the same setup (modified httpd.conf)
In this setup all http traffic is redirected to https, which is not
ideal. To answer some questions:
- Apache httpd does not point to the Tomcat webapps.
- Double https is not needed (like: browser -> https-> Apache ->
https-> tomcat)
- I use this for my SSL certificate <IfModule ssl_module>Include conf/
ssl.conf</IfModule>
This is my current setup in 2.2:
LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so
LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so
LoadModule ssl_module modules/mod_ssl.so
<IfModule ssl_module>
SSLRandomSeed startup builtin
SSLRandomSeed connect builtin
Include conf/ssl.conf
</IfModule>
ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/
ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8080/
<VirtualHost *:443>
SSLProxyEngine On
ProxyPass https://localhost:443/ https://localhost:8443/
ProxyPassReverse https://localhost:443/ https://localhost:8443/
</VirtualHost>
Some questions:
1) Will this setup work to make https work for selected webapps or
subdirectories only? Or do I need mod_rewrite? Do you have examples
of how this can be done?
2) Could the same be done using mod_rewrite? It's not clear to me
what the differences are, and what for instance mod_jk could add
here. (Not that I plan to use mod_jk now, but I want to understand.)
3) I have difficulty understanding the mod_rewrite syntax. It this a
good book on how to learn it? Do you have other suggestions?
http://www.amazon.com/Definitive-Guide-Apache-mod_rewrite/dp/1590595610/
Roger
Op 6 jul 2007, om 11:19 heeft David Smith het volgende geschreven:
But all the contents of $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/$YOUR_APPLICATION/
WEB-INF does become exposed and that should not be. If you are
going to do that, you should consider making sure you configure
apache httpd to not server up anything contained there.
--David
Arian Abrahantes wrote:
Hi Filik:
Just to end this because, probably, I am making a mistake or I
didn't make myself clear in my previous post. Do you mean that in
the apache configuration in the virtual host definition one must
not point the DocumentRoot directive to the folder where your
contents are?. Something like:
DocumentRoot $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/$YOUR_APPLICATION
I meant documents or applications not tomcat config files or
whatever alike? or at least is what the previous line looks like.
Please if this is wrong kindly consider to tell me how it must be
done? I don't see where is the security issue cause like this,
IMHO, any other file from tomcat is out of sight for sniffers.
And Roger, original poster, just an example of how to integrate
apache and tomcat with mod proxy for an application based in
tomcat. Which will clarify any doubt you had for setting up a
configuration with apache as proxy. I think I should have posted
the example instead of try to explain myself, my english is not
goot after all.
http://195.14.236.181/opencms/opencms/alkacon-documentation/
howto_apache_httpd/mod_proxy.html
Hope you can explain me and thanking you in advance,
arian
Filip Hanik - Dev Lists wrote:
Arian Abrahantes wrote:
Hi Filik:
I understood what he wanted to do. My post is about how needed
is this for him?. If it is a company requirement ok. But if
there is no requirement why to slow the server down?.
IMHO, in a properly set apache proxy configuration nobody except
apache will interact with the aplication (you name it) that lies
bellow him. So even if companies or users wishes this double
encryption I seriously doubt they will be getting more security.
Anyway, as far as I know both servers can share the same keys
for authentication (I am pretty sure there is a quite close in
date -previous month- thread posted in this list or in Opencms'
one) and just looking into his config it should work so just try
it out. He is just missing the addition of the DocumentRoot
where his contents under tomcat lies.
uh, absolutely not, never point your DocumentRoot to the Tomcat
file structure unless you know exactly how to secure it.
Filip
hth,
arian
Filip Hanik - Dev Lists wrote:
I think what he wants is
browser -> http -> Apache -> http -> tomcat
browser -> https-> Apache -> https-> tomcat
a lot of companies have these requirements
Filip
Arian Abrahantes wrote:
Hi:
I think this has alraedy being discussed somewhere here. Why
do you need double enchriptation? It is enough with the apache
one. Use something like:
broweser -> https -> Apache -> http -> tomcat
pro:
1- Single enchiptation fast server response.
cons (at least fo security):
1- none
I may be wrong plesa verify in the mailing list archive
Filip Hanik - Dev Lists wrote:
question, does it work? or does it always send requests to
8080, for both http and https?
for your SSL, you can/need to add in your httpd client
certificate, ie, the certificate to use when contacting
Tomcat for SSL
<VirtualHost *:443>
SSLProxyEngine On
ProxyPass / https://localhost:8443/
ProxyPassReverse / https://localhost:8443/
#
# Put your Proxy SSL Certificate directives here
#
</VirtualHost>
Filip
Roger wrote:
Hi there!
I have some questions about how to setup Apache and Tomcat
with SSL
support. Currently I have the following setup:
- Windows 2003
- Tomcat 6.0.13
- Apache 2.0.59 with
- openssl 0.9.7j
- mod_ssl
- mod_proxy
- mod_rewrite (not used)
I have generated keys that work with Apache. So I can open a
page like
https://localhost/. I've tried to use mod_proxy to redirect all
traffic to Tomcat, which works for http and https, using the
following
setup:
<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
Include conf/ssl.conf
</IfModule>
ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/
ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8080/
<VirtualHost *:443>
SSLProxyEngine On
ProxyPass https://localhost:443/ https://localhost:8443/
ProxyPassReverse https://localhost:443/ https://localhost:
8443/
</VirtualHost>
I have the following questions:
1) Is this a normal setup? Anything that could cause a problem?
2) I want to be able to route traffic for one webapp to
https, not
allowing it to be used via http. I don't care if this is
done using
mod_rewrite or mod_proxy or anything else.
All suggestions are appreciated!
Thanks,
Roger
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