This is a log of my installation/Compilation of Apache DSO with SSL, MM, and Tomcat 3.1 Beta 1 (source distribution) Solaris SunOS heechee 5.7 Generic_106541-08 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-250 You may want to read my FAQ on Tomcat 3.1 beta 1. since it will be easier to follow this installation log. It is available at: http://www.ccl.net/cca/software/UNIX/apache/tomcat3.1b1-faq.html This stuff if based on INSTALL file which comes with mod_ssl and on the http://www.servlets.com/soapbox/techtips/ December 8, 1999 "Install instructions for Apache 1.3.9 with Tomcat 3.0" by Jason Hunter. If you are outside US, please look into INSTALL which comes with mod_ssl, since you do not need RSAREF and can use more robust code [your 8) and apache configure will be different]. 2) Install Java 1.2 under Solaris if you do not have it. If you type java -version and it tells you that you have JDK 1.2, you are OK. If not you need to install. It is simple. You get a package from http://www.javasoft.com/: a) click on Products & APIs b) choose JAVA 2 SDK, Standard Edition http://www.javasoft.com/products/jdk/1.2/index.html c) take: Java 2 SDK SolarisTM Production Release (J2SE) [I really wonder whu Sun constantly changes names. It is some ill-advised marketing ploy which unfortunately wastes a lot of time of other people]. You need: d) You need essentially all files. I placed them in /usr/local/java 393617 Feb 2 09:56 1.2.1_04_Developer-Guide.ps 37347 Feb 2 09:56 1.2.1_04_Release-Notes.html 274881 Feb 2 09:56 1.2.1_04_docs_sparc.tar.Z 13287936 Feb 2 09:58 1.2.1_04_patches_sparc_5.5.1.tar 4773888 Feb 2 09:58 1.2.1_04_patches_sparc_5.7.tar 11592 Feb 2 09:58 README.sparc 19826325 Feb 2 10:01 Solaris_JDK_1.2.1_04_sparc.bin e) Read the README.sparc and do what they say. i) chmod +x Solaris_JDK_1.2.1_04_sparc.bin ii) ./Solaris_JDK_1.2.1_04_sparc.bin iii) Move the old install directory of Java 2 (if exists): mv /usr/java1.2 /usr/java1.2_previous iii) move the directory Solaris_JDK_1.2.1_04 just created to where you want it, and you better want it at /usr/java1.2 mv Solaris_JDK_1.2.1_04 /usr/java1.2 iv) Since my solaris is 2.7 % uname -a SunOS heechee 5.7 Generic_106541-08 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-250 I used patches for it: tar xvf 1.2.1_04_patches_sparc_5.7.tar This created a directory ./5.7 with for tar.Z files in it 284963 Oct 26 19:57 106980-05.tar.Z 2660971 Oct 26 19:57 107078-10.tar.Z 1308491 Oct 26 19:57 107607-01.tar.Z 514653 Oct 26 19:57 107636-01.tar.Z v) I unpacked each patch as: gtar Zxvf 1xxxxxx-xx.tar.Z this creates a directory 1xxxxxx-xx for each patch cd 1xxxxxx-xx and read README.106980-05. Then run pkgadd pkgadd -d . SUN* and answer yes. f) test if java installed corretly: java -version java version "1.2.1" Solaris VM (build Solaris_JDK_1.2.1_04, native threads, sunwjit) 4) Set your environment variables for Java (I am assuming you use some Bourne shell lookalike -- ksh or bash. JAVA_HOME=/usr/java1.2 export JAVA_HOME PATH=/usr/local/bin:${JAVA_HOME}/bin:${PATH} export PATH CLASSPATH=${JAVA_HOME}/lib/tools.jar:${JAVA_HOME}/lib/dt.jar export CLASSPATH 5) Make top directory for Tomcat installation. I did /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1 but if you do some other, you need to remember to use it in the instructions below, mkdir /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1 6) I also make a subdirectory sources to have all needed sources in one place. mkdir /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/sources cd /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/sources place there tar files, and then unpack them as shown below: a) apache_1.3.12.tar.gz from http://www.apache.org/dist/ gtar zxvf apache_1.3.12.tar.gz b) mod_ssl-2.6.2-1.3.12.tar.gz from http://www.modssl.org gtar zxvf mod_ssl-2.6.2-1.3.12.tar.gz c) openssl-0.9.5.tar.gz from http://www.openssl.org gtar zxvf openssl-0.9.5.tar.gz d) mm-1.0.12.tar.gz from http://www.engelschall.com/sw/mm/ gtar zxvf mm-1.0.12.tar.gz e) rsaref20.tar.Z -- it is no longer distributed, and I got it from my private museum. It is available from many places on the Web outside US. Search the Web FOR RSAREF 2.0. mkdir rsaref-2.0 cd rsaref-2.0 gtar Zxvf ../rsaref20.tar.Z cd .. f) tar.gz sources for tomcat 3.1 beta 1 from http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/tomcat/release/v3.1_beta_1/src jakarta-ant.tar.gz jakarta-tomcat.tar.gz jakarta-tools.tar.gz jakarta-watchdog.tar.gz I untarred them as: cd /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/sources gtar zxvf jakarta-ant.tar.gz gtar zxvf jakarta-tomcat.tar.gz gtar zxvf jakarta-tools.tar.gz gtar zxvf jakarta-watchdog.tar.gz 7) Compiled RSAREF library for openssl since we are in US and RSA has a patent, and we cannot use the decent implementation of crypto libraries. If you are in Europe, you can skip this thing. cd /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/sources/rsaref-2.0 cp -rp install/unix local cd local edited makefile to have CC = gcc changed all occurrances of cc --> $(CC) added -fPIC to CFLAGS make mv rsaref.a librsaref.a 8) Compiled the openssl [if you are in Europe, you need to check the mod_ssl INSTALL not to include RSAREF] cd /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/sources/openssl-0.9.5 sh config \ -L/usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/sources/rsaref-2.0/local/rsaref -fPIC make make test 9) Compiled MM shared memory library cd /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/sources/mm-1.0.12 ./configure --disable-shared make cd .. 10) Configured mod_ssl cd /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/sources/mod_ssl-2.6.2-1.3.12 EAPI_MM=../mm-1.0.12 \ ./configure \ --with-apache=/usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/sources/apache_1.3.12 11) Configure and make and install Apache with DSO support: cd /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/sources/apache_1.3.12 SSL_BASE=/usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/sources/openssl-0.9.5 \ RSA_BASE=/usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/sources/rsaref-2.0/local \ EAPI_MM=/usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/sources/mm-1.0.12 \ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache_t3.1b1 \ --enable-module=so \ --enable-rule=SHARED_CORE \ --enable-module=most \ --enable-shared=max \ --enable-module=ssl \ --enable-shared=ssl make make certificate TYPE=custom make install My entries for certificates with make certificate TYPE=custom were defaults, no passwords, and: STEP 0: R STEP 2: 1. Country Name [XY]:US 2. State or Province Name [Snake Desert]:Ohio 3. Locality Name [Snake Town]:Columbus 4. Organization Name [Snake Oil, Ltd]:OSC 5. Organizational Unit Name [Cer..Authority]:Gateway 6. Common Name [Snake Oil CA]:heechee.ccl.net 7. Email Address [ca@snakeoil.dom]:jkl@ccl.net 8. Certificate Validity [365]:1000 STEP 3: 3 STEP 5: 1. Country Name [XY]:US 2. State or Province Name [Snake Desert]:Ohio 3. Locality Name [Snake Town]:Columbus 4. Organization Name [Snake Oil, Ltd]:OSC 5. Organizational Unit Name [Webserver Team]:PSE 6. Common Name [www.snakeoil.dom]:heechee.ccl.net 7. Email Address [www@snakeoil.dom]:jkl@ccl.net 8. Certificate Validity [365]:1001 STEP 6: 3 STEP 7:n STEP 8:n After I created the certiricates, and did make install for apache I copied previous certificates, from my original install of Apache So I did not mess up people who already have the certificate for this machine. My previous certificates where /usr/local/apache_JServ1.1-SC99/conf And I did: cd /usr/local/apache_JServ1.1-SC99/conf gtar zcvf /usr/local/certificates.tar.gz ssl* cd /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/conf gtar zxvf /usr/local/certificates.tar.gz 12) edited a file in /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/conf/httpd.conf and added (actually uncommented): ServerName heechee.ccl.net 13) Testing if Apache works: a) make sure other installation of apache is not running, or if it runs, it does not use port 80 and port 443. (do: ps -ef | grep httpd), and if httpd runs, kill it with its own apachectl script or just use kill pid for each httpd running (do: ps -ef | grep httpd) b) start apache with: /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/bin/apachectl startssl If you have warning, you have a problem, and try to do "exactly what I say" next time {:-)}. c) Use your browser (preferable on some other machine) and check if http: and https: work In my case, I tries URLs: http://heechee.ccl.net/ and https://heechee.ccl.net/ In the https case you should get a lot of windows which ask you for accepting the certificate. Just click Next to see if you can go through to the page. d) Stop apache, since you are not finshed yet. /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/bin/apachectl stop 14) Compiled mod_jserv.so included in jakarta-tomcat zip archive. cd /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/sources cd jakarta-tomcat/src/native/apache/jserv emacs jserv_ajpv12.c First, I added a correction from tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org list: In jserv_ajpv12.c in function original_uri(request_rec *r) the line : while (*last && !ap_isspace(*last)) { needs to be changed to while (*last && !ap_isspace(*last) && *last != '?') { cd /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/sources cd jakarta-tomcat/src/native/apache/jserv /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/bin/apxs -c mod_jserv.c jserv*.c cp mod_jserv.so /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/libexec 15) Building and installing tomcat cd /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/sources/jakarta-ant ./bootstrap.sh ./build.sh PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/sources/jakarta-ant/bin export PATH ANT_HOME=/usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/sources/jakarta-ant export ANT_HOME cd /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/sources/jakarta-tomcat ./build.sh 16) Starting stand alone tomcat and testing: cd /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/sources/build/tomcat/bin edited startup.sh to be: -------------------- cut start -------------- #!/bin/sh # original comments which where there JAVA_HOME=/usr/java1.2 export JAVA_HOME PATH=/usr/local/bin:${JAVA_HOME}/bin:${PATH} PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/sources/build/tomcat/bin export PATH CLASSPATH=${JAVA_HOME}/lib/tools.jar:${JAVA_HOME}/lib/dt.jar export CLASSPATH BASEDIR=/usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/sources/build/tomcat/bin export BASEDIR $BASEDIR/tomcat.sh start "$@" -------------------- cut end -------------- edited shutdown.sh to be: -------------------- cut start -------------- #!/bin/sh # original comments which where there JAVA_HOME=/usr/java1.2 export JAVA_HOME PATH=/usr/local/bin:${JAVA_HOME}/bin:${PATH} PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/sources/build/tomcat/bin export PATH CLASSPATH=${JAVA_HOME}/lib/tools.jar:${JAVA_HOME}/lib/dt.jar export CLASSPATH BASEDIR=/usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/sources/build/tomcat/bin export BASEDIR $BASEDIR/tomcat.sh stop "$@" -------------------- cut end -------------- Then I did: ./startup.sh In my browser I called: http://heechee.ccl.net:8080/ and it gave me the Tomcat examples page. Examples worked, so I shut down. ./shutdown.sh 17) Added tomcat.conf to httpd.conf by adding a line: Include /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/sources/build/tomcat/conf/tomcat.conf at the end of /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/conf/httpd.conf 18) In /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/bin cp apachectl apache-tomcat and edited apache-tomcat to have a script to start/stop tomcat/apache a) At the beginning, just after "END CONFIGURATION SECTION" I added: TOMCAT_HOME=/usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/sources/build/tomcat export TOMCAT_HOME JAVA_HOME=/usr/java1.2 export JAVA_HOME PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:${PATH} export PATH b) under case startssl added 2 lines after: if $HTTPD -DSSL; then cd $TOMCAT_HOME/bin ./startup.sh c) under case stop added 2 lines after: if kill $PID ; then cd $TOMCAT_HOME/bin ./shutdown.sh d) changed apache-tomcat to executable : chmod 755 /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/bin/apache-tomcat 19) Started the apache/tomcat as: /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/bin/apache-tomcat startssl and checked if http://heechee.ccl.net/examples and https://heechee.ccl.net/examples worked. They did, so I killed the server with: /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/bin/apache-tomcat stop 20) changed permissions/ownership on the example directories cd /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/sources/build/tomcat/webapps chown -R root . chgrp -R www . chmod -R g+w . find . -type d -exec chmod g+s {} \; cd /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/sources/build/tomcat/logs chown -R nobody . chmod -R g+w . 21) Changed ports. Since we have the previous (3.1M1) version of apache/tomcat running, I had to change ports in this version not to collide with the other installation: Orig New Files affected http(apache) --> 80 --> 9080 conf/httpd.conf https --> 443 --> 9443 conf/httpd.conf http(tomcat) --> 8080 --> 9090 sources/build/tomcat/conf/server.xml sources/build/tomcat/conf/test-tomcat.xml tomcat/jserv --> 8007 --> 9007 sources/build/tomcat/conf/tomcat.conf sources/build/tomcat/conf/tomcat.properties sources/build/tomcat/conf/server.xml 22) After tomcat/apache is installed, the default configuration of mod_jserv.c and mod_rewrite_c is wrong, since mod_jserv follows mod_rewrite (for details look up: http://www.magiccookie.com/computers/apache-jserv/ To fix it I put mod_serv before mod_rewrite in LoadModule jserv_module libexec/mod_jserv.so LoadModule rewrite_module libexec/mod_rewrite.so and AddModule mod_jserv.c AddModule mod_rewrite.c and commented out the line # LoadModule jserv_module libexec/mod_jserv.so in /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/sources/build/tomcat/conf/tomcat.conf 23) Adding other tomcat "web applications" beside "examples" so they can also be access via Apache Web server. /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/sources/build/tomcat/webapps/ROOT /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/sources/build/tomcat/webapps/test /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/sources/build/tomcat/webapps/admin Note, I also provide for the Basic Authentication in both http and https. If you want to be picky, you need to disable the Basic Authentication on the http port since it is profoundly unsafe. To mount the original Tomcat directories I added following lines to: /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/sources/build/tomcat/conf/tomcat.conf ApJServMount /docs /root <Location /docs> AuthType Basic AuthName "For internal users only" AuthUserFile /usr/local/apache/auth/htpasswd AuthGroupFile /usr/local/apache/auth/htgroup AuthType Basic <Limit GET POST> require group demo </Limit> </Location> ApJServMount /test /root <Location /test> AuthType Basic AuthName "For internal users only" AuthUserFile /usr/local/apache/auth/htpasswd AuthGroupFile /usr/local/apache/auth/htgroup AuthType Basic <Limit GET POST> require group demo </Limit> </Location> ApJServMount /admin /root <Location /admin> AuthType Basic AuthName "For internal users only" AuthUserFile /usr/local/apache/auth/htpasswd AuthGroupFile /usr/local/apache/auth/htgroup AuthType Basic <Limit GET POST> require group demo </Limit> </Location> In /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/sources/build/tomcat/conf/server.xml added: <Context path="/docs" docBase="webapps/ROOT" debug="0" reloadable="true" > </Context> <Context path="/admin" docBase="webapps/admin" debug="0" reloadable="true" > </Context> (note, I left the entry: <Context path="" docBase="webapps/ROOT" debug="0" reloadable="true" > </Context> unchanged, since it corresponds to a TOP directory of Tomcat). Unfortunately, this messed up the links in the original tomcat examples when viewed via Apache port (9080). It is because in Tomcat the URL to top directory / corresponds to the real directory: /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/sources/build/tomcat/webapps while in Apache it corresponds to /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/htdocs Moreover, the /docs in apache corresponds to / in tomcat. I cleaned it up by adding following contexts ApJServMount /docs/examples /root ApJServMount /docs/test /root ApJServMount /docs/admin /root to /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/sources/build/tomcat/conf/tomcat.conf and adding them to /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/sources/build/tomcat/conf/server.xml as: <Context path="/docs/examples" docBase="webapps/examples" debug="0" reloadable="true" > </Context> <Context path="/docs/admin" docBase="webapps/admin" debug="0" reloadable="true" > </Context> <Context path="/docs/test" docBase="webapps/test" debug="0" reloadable="true" > </Context> 24) To deal with docs/examples --> /examples problem I also tried to use rewrite modules of apache. I have put the following lines into /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/sources/build/tomcat/conf/tomcat.conf <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^/docs/examples /examples [R] RewriteRule ^/docs/test /test [R] RewriteRule ^/docs/admin /admin [R] RewriteRule ^/tomcat.gif /docs/tomcat.gif [R] </IfModule> Worked perfectly!!! Note, if you do not put mod_jserv before mod_rewrite in module activation section of httpd.conf, the stuff will not work!!! 25) Created a script "servlet3.1b1" to compile servlets and placed it in /usr/local/bin directory. The script is: ============== cut =========== #!/bin/sh # compiling servlets for Tomcat 3.1 beta 1 installation path JAVA_HOME=/usr/java1.2 export JAVA_HOME TOMCAT_HOME=/usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/sources/build/tomcat export TOMCAT_HOME PATH=/usr/bin:${JAVA_HOME}/bin:/usr/local/bin: export PATH CLASSPATH=${JAVA_HOME}/lib/tools.jar:${JAVA_HOME}/lib/dt.jar:${TOMCAT_HOME}/classes export CLASSPATH javac $1 ============== cut =========== To run it, you should cd to the directory where you have your servlet source, and then execute: servlet3.1b1 MyNiceServlet.java You can also add more options to the the java compiler (javac) but you need to enclose it in quotes. For example, to have more output you can do: servlet3.1b1 "-verbose MyNiceServlet.java" 26) I created a skeleton of the web application called SciPortal and mounted it as SciPortal under Apache DocumentRoot. My $APACHE_HOME is /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1. I created directory SciPortal under $APACHE_HOME/htdocs: cd /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/htdocs mkdir SciPortal cd SciPortal mkdir WEB-INF mkdir WEB-INF/classes mkdir WEB-INF/lib I created a dummy web.xml under WEB-INF: ================== cut here =============== <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.2//EN" "http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2.2.dtd"> <web-app> </web-app> ================ cut here ==================== I then added the following to the /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/sources/build/tomcat/conf/tomcat.conf file: ApJServMount /SciPortal /root <Location /SciPortal> AuthType Basic AuthName "For internal users only" AuthUserFile /usr/local/apache/auth/htpasswd AuthGroupFile /usr/local/apache/auth/htgroup AuthType Basic <Limit GET POST> require group demo </Limit> </Location> This tells Apache that the requests to directory: /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/htdocs/SciPortal (i.e., URLs location http://heechee.ccl.net:9080/SciPortal) should be redirected to Tomcat for processing, and that Basic Authentication needs be done for group defined in /usr/local/apache/auth/htgroup whose id/password pairs are stored in /usr/local/apache/auth/htpasswd. The Authentication Realm is "For internal users only". I also needed to tell Tomcat that we have a new Web application. I edited file: /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/sources/build/tomcat/conf/server.xml and added there a piece like this: <Context path="/SciPortal" docBase="/usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/htdocs/SciPortal" debug="0" reloadable="true" > </Context> I then restarted apache/Tomcat as described in 19. 27) In the top directory of my web application, SciPortal, i.e., /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/htdocs/SciPortal I placed a simple JSP page (junk.jsp to be precise) to test if the stuff mounts correctly: ============= <HTML> <% String user = request.getRemoteUser(); if(user == null) user = "Sorry, Basic Authentication does not work"; %> <HEAD><TITLE>Test JSP for <%= user %></TITLE></HEAD> <BODY> <H1>Hello <FONT COLOR="red"><%= user %>!</H1> </BODY> </HTML> ============= It worked!!! What a relief... The top directory is a place to put all the images, *.jsp, *.css, and *.html files. The classes for servlets, beans, utilities, should be placed under /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/htdocs/SciPortal/WEB-INF/classes For testing, I first put there a HellowWorldExample.java (copied, but then altered substantially from the tomcat distribution: ======================== Cut here ======================== /* $Id: HelloWorldExample.java,v 1.1.1.1 1999/10/09 00:19:59 duncan Exp $ * Modifed by jkl */ import java.io.*; import java.text.*; import java.util.*; import javax.servlet.*; import javax.servlet.http.*; /** * The simplest possible servlet. * * @author James Duncan Davidson */ public class HelloWorldExample extends HttpServlet { public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException, ServletException { response.setContentType("text/html"); PrintWriter out = response.getWriter(); out.println("<html>"); out.println("<head>"); String title = request.getRemoteUser(); out.println("<title>" + title + "</title>"); out.println("</head>"); out.println("<body bgcolor=\"yellow\">"); out.println("<H1>Hello " + title + "</H1>"); out.println("</body>"); out.println("</html>"); } } ======================== Cut here ======================== I compiled this thing with my fancy compilation script as: servlet3.1b1 HelloWorldExample.java and then checked if it worked by doing the URL https://heechee.ccl.net:9443/SciPortal/servlet/HelloWorldExample Worked again. Then I tried to remap the servlet to something else to find out if my <TT>/usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/htdocs/SciPortal/WEB-INF/web.xml</TT> was working. -------------- cut here ----------- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.2//EN" "http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2.2.dtd"> <web-app> <servlet> <servlet-name>Hello</servlet-name> <servlet-class>HelloWorldExample</servlet-class> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>Hello</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/Hi</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> </web-app> -------------- cut here ----------- I restarted the Apache as: /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/bin/apache-tomcat stop /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/bin/apache-tomcat startssl and tried: https://heechee.ccl.net:9443/SciPortal/Hi Worked like CHARMM. Of course, them same servlet used with the Tomcat web server on 9090 displayed: Hello null, since Tomcat was not doing any authentication. 28) Since this web site will only work with HTTPS and Basic Authentication it was time to disable Tomcat port 9090, and the 9080 HTTP port of Apache. The Tomcat server is easy to disable. In the /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/sources/build/tomcat/conf/server.xml I commented out the Connector as: <!-- <Connector className="org.apache.tomcat.service.SimpleTcpConnector"> <Parameter name="handler" value="org.apache.tomcat.service.http.HttpConnectionHandler"/> <Parameter name="port" value="9090"/> </Connector> --> and then restated Apache/Tomcat as: /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/bin/apache-tomcat stop /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/bin/apache-tomcat startssl checked with the browser: http://heechee.ccl.net:9090/SciPortal/Hi and the port was indeed dead. Then I was messing up the /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/conf/httpd.conf To block the connections on the 9080 port carrying the plain HTTP unencrypted traffic I commented the following lines in the body of httpd.conf: # Port 9080 and # Listen 9080 (but I left Listen 9443). Then I restarted the server and tried http://heechee.ccl.net/SciPortal/Hi http://heechee.ccl.net:9090/SciPortal/Hi http://heechee.ccl.net:9080/SciPortal/Hi http://heechee.ccl.net:9443/SciPortal/Hi https://heechee.ccl.net:9443/SciPortal/Hi Only the last one worked, the rest was refused. 29) The last chores I did at this stage (i.e., before installing the real contents), was to change the UserId and GroupId which runs the Apache Server. The server will be running not as nobody (default setting), but as user webrun and group webrun. The webrun is a real userid to which developers have access. The webrun group contains only user webrun. I change all files in /usr/local/apache_t3.1b1/logs to webrun.webrun and edited the httpd.conf and set User webrun Group webrun