Hi Jeff, when I had this problem it was caused by the presence of a file named "tcnative-1.dll" in the ~/Tomcat 5.5/bin directory. When I removed that .dll file, everything worked as described in the Tomcat documentation for SSL. --Tony C.
-------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "Jeffery G. Summers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hello! I'm brand-new to Tomcat and am under the gun to learn it quickly. > The short story: My University hired our Software Vendor to upgrade our > administrative web software. We also hired them to move us from iPlanet to > Jakarta Tomcat 5.0.28. Currently we can access our web software on port 80. > The problem is enabling SSL on port 8443. We're stuck and the software > vendor hasn't been helpful (yet). I don't know if the problem was caused by > something the consultant did not do upon setup or something we are missing > elsewhere. > > Our webserver is an IBM P615C AIX 5.2 box. I have attempted the following > to enable port 8443: > > 1) keytool -genkey -alias tomcat -keyalg RSA > 2) Edited server.xml and uncommented the port 8443 connector > 3) Stopped/Started Tomcat > > When I run telnet localhost 80 I get a connection. When I try telnet > localhost 8443 I get a denied connection message. I have re-commented the > port 8443 connector and then changed my port 80 (formerly 8080) to 8443 and > restarted Tomcat. > > After doing this I was able to go to http://localhost:8443 with no problems. > Of course, it is http and not https. Since the port activates I'm led to > believe it's either a Tomcat setup issue or perhaps something to do with > AIX. I changed things back so port 80 was active again and I uncommented > port 8443 and restarted Tomcat again. The catalina.out log file shows some > errors which may have something to do with the problem but I don't know what > to do at this point. Please help this novice! Thanks! > > ==================================== > Jeffery G. Summers > System Administrator > Transylvania University > Colleague R17/Ben 5.1/AIX 5.3.3 > WebAdvisor 3.0/AIX 5.2/Tomcat 5.0.28 > ===================================== > > The errors: > > Feb 2, 2006 10:20:20 AM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol pause > INFO: Pausing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8443 > > Feb 2, 2006 10:20:20 AM org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteConnector pause > > SEVERE: Protocol handler pause failed > > java.lang.NullPointerException > Feb 2, 2006 10:20:22 AM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol destroy > > INFO: Stopping Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8443 > > Feb 2, 2006 10:20:22 AM org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteConnector stop > > SEVERE: Coyote connector has not been started > Feb 2, 2006 10:20:40 AM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol start > SEVERE: Error initializing endpoint > > java.io.IOException: Algorithm SunX509 not available > > > > > Successfully Scanned by the McAfee SIG 3200 Appliance. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]