Re: SSL redirect problems

2014-08-01 Thread John Smith
> > > > TLS is layer 5 so if the LB is operating at layer 4 it can't host the > cert. Some LBs can operate at layer 5 so it will depend on your LB > and/or its configuration. > > Mark > > I see. That's good to know. The LB is at 7.

Re: SSL redirect problems

2014-08-01 Thread John Smith
> > > Thanks for letting us know what the issue was; many people never come back > and tell us what fixed it. > > My pleasure. This list is awesome.

Re: SSL redirect problems

2014-08-01 Thread Mark Thomas
On 01/08/2014 17:06, John Smith wrote: > On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Mark Thomas wrote: > >> On 01/08/2014 16:30, Daniel Mikusa wrote: >>> You probably want the SSL certificate installed on your hardware load >>> balancer. End client's browsers are going to connect to the hardware >> load >

Re: SSL redirect problems

2014-08-01 Thread David kerber
On 8/1/2014 1:33 PM, John Smith wrote: Is your LB configured to listen on 8443, or on 443? It won't pick up the port it's supposed to listen on from the TC instances; you have to specify it. Nailed it. Simplest solution, I didn't even consider it. Thanks, John Thanks for letting us k

Re: SSL redirect problems

2014-08-01 Thread John Smith
> > >> There is no response, since you are not even able to connect to that > IP:port. > If you are using the IP of the LB, then the LB is not accepting > connections on port 8443. > You won't get much further, unless you solve that first. > But I thought that you wanted your users to access via p

Re: SSL redirect problems

2014-08-01 Thread John Smith
> > >> > Is your LB configured to listen on 8443, or on 443? It won't pick up the > port it's supposed to listen on from the TC instances; you have to specify > it. > > Nailed it. Simplest solution, I didn't even consider it. Thanks, John

Re: SSL redirect problems

2014-08-01 Thread John Smith
> > > As your testing keep this process in mind. If you encounter a problem just > try to break down the flow from your browser to the server and back. If > you look at the request at each hop through this process, you can often > find where things went wrong. For example, did the request hit th

Re: SSL redirect problems

2014-08-01 Thread Daniel Mikusa
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 11:49 AM, John Smith wrote: > > > > > TC 7.0.54 / RHEL 6 > > > > > > I have two physical servers, each running an instance of TC. The > servers > > > are behind a hardware loadbalancer. IPTables is routing request on 80 > to > > > 8080. > > > > > > This seems unnecessary.

Re: SSL redirect problems

2014-08-01 Thread David kerber
On 8/1/2014 12:35 PM, John Smith wrote: No, I am not really going that far. I am suggesting that that may be the kind of thing that is happening, and that you may want to investigate with a browser plugin, that the requests/responses are really what you are expecting. Your initial explanatio

Re: SSL redirect problems

2014-08-01 Thread André Warnier
John Smith wrote: No, I am not really going that far. I am suggesting that that may be the kind of thing that is happening, and that you may want to investigate with a browser plugin, that the requests/responses are really what you are expecting. Your initial explanation was a bit confusing a

Re: SSL redirect problems

2014-08-01 Thread John Smith
> > >>> No, I am not really going that far. I am suggesting that that may be > the kind of thing that is happening, and that you may want to investigate > with a browser plugin, that the requests/responses are really what you are > expecting. > Your initial explanation was a bit confusing and lack

Re: SSL redirect problems

2014-08-01 Thread André Warnier
John Smith wrote: Not contradicting anything Daniel is saying, but maybe something to add, and maybe that's the missing part of the original puzzle : If Tomcat is expecting HTTPS requests on port 8443, then any re-direct or response that it is sending back is going to include that port number a

Re: SSL redirect problems

2014-08-01 Thread John Smith
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Mark Thomas wrote: > On 01/08/2014 16:30, Daniel Mikusa wrote: > > You probably want the SSL certificate installed on your hardware load > > balancer. End client's browsers are going to connect to the hardware > load > > balancer, not Tomcat. Thus you'd want the

Re: SSL redirect problems

2014-08-01 Thread John Smith
>> Not contradicting anything Daniel is saying, but maybe something to add, > and maybe that's the missing part of the original puzzle : > > If Tomcat is expecting HTTPS requests on port 8443, then any re-direct or > response that it is sending back is going to include that port number after > the

Re: SSL redirect problems

2014-08-01 Thread Mark Thomas
On 01/08/2014 16:30, Daniel Mikusa wrote: > You probably want the SSL certificate installed on your hardware load > balancer. End client's browsers are going to connect to the hardware load > balancer, not Tomcat. Thus you'd want the certificate there so your end > users can benefit from it. Tha

Re: SSL redirect problems

2014-08-01 Thread John Smith
> > > TC 7.0.54 / RHEL 6 > > > > I have two physical servers, each running an instance of TC. The servers > > are behind a hardware loadbalancer. IPTables is routing request on 80 to > > 8080. > > > This seems unnecessary. If you have a hardware load balancer in front of > Tomcat, it is the only t

Re: SSL redirect problems

2014-08-01 Thread André Warnier
Daniel Mikusa wrote: On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 11:13 AM, John Smith wrote: TC 7.0.54 / RHEL 6 I have two physical servers, each running an instance of TC. The servers are behind a hardware loadbalancer. IPTables is routing request on 80 to 8080. This seems unnecessary. If you have a hardware

Re: SSL redirect problems

2014-08-01 Thread Daniel Mikusa
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 11:13 AM, John Smith wrote: > TC 7.0.54 / RHEL 6 > > I have two physical servers, each running an instance of TC. The servers > are behind a hardware loadbalancer. IPTables is routing request on 80 to > 8080. This seems unnecessary. If you have a hardware load balancer i

SSL redirect problems

2014-08-01 Thread John Smith
TC 7.0.54 / RHEL 6 I have two physical servers, each running an instance of TC. The servers are behind a hardware loadbalancer. IPTables is routing request on 80 to 8080. Tomcat runs under a non-root user. All good. I needed to protect an area of our webapp under SSL. Went ahead and installed the