Hello Chris,

thanks for the reply. Maybe I am doing something wrong, but setting
secretRequired="false" does not solve my issue. Let me show you what I did
and experience: I added <Connector port="8011" protocol="AJP/1.3"
redirectPort="8443" secretRequired="false" /> to the Tomcat configuration
and the ajp connector on the Apache HTTPD side connects to 8011. When I now
visit my website I got HTTP Status 403 – Forbidden

I attached also the error page as a screenshot to this mail. This behaviour
exists only sice the Ghostcat fix release (I know that this has nothing to
do with security fix but probably with the release itself).

Thanks in advance
Florian

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Von: Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net> 
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 19. März 2020 20:14
An: users@tomcat.apache.org
Betreff: Re: AJP Connector issue

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Florian,

On 3/19/20 07:43, Fritze, Florian wrote:
> since the Tomcat release with the Ghostcat security fix (Tomcat
> 8.5.51) me as an admin have the problem using the 
> https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_proxy_ajp.html module to 
> connect the Apache HTTPD with the Tomcat running on localhost. The 
> attribute secretRequired must be set to „true“ or „false“ with „false“ 
> set the connection is not possible between Tomcat and Apache HTTPD.

When you have set secretRequired="false", it's not possible to connect? When
you try to connect, what DOES happen?

> With „true“ the Apache development is not ready in the current version 
> to work with the „secret“ attribute. Only the next version of Apache 
> 2.4 supports this attribute.
Correct. Support for secret= in mod_proxy_ajp was evidently never really a
priority for anybody until now.

> So I want to use the newest Tomcat version and an AJP connector but 
> after the Ghostcat fix release there is this attribute which does not 
> work in my configuration.
>
> Are there any suggestions or solutions available that you can deliver 
> me (links or documentation, etc.)

secretRequired="false" should be all you need.

Of course, to be truly secure, you need to make sure that not just anybody
can make requests through your AJP interface. Have you secured that
interface from potential evildoers?

- -chris
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