Disabling security certificate settings

If you do not require secure connections, the security settings can be disabled.

About this task

Important: These instructions explain how to disable the SSL certificate, which permits unencrypted connections to the server, including user login credentials. If you require secure connections, create a self-signed certificate identifying the host by its network name, or request a certificate signed by a trusted certificate authority (CA).

Modifying the Apache Tomcat settings

Procedure

Note: Apache Tomcat is not supported on IBM® i.

  1. Apache Tomcat must have been started at least one time.
  2. Go to the JazzInstallDir/server/tomcat/webapps/jazz/WEB-INF directory.
  3. Edit the web.xml file in this directory and change all occurrences of "CONFIDENTIAL" to "NONE".
  4. Go to the JazzInstallDir/server/tomcat/conf directory and edit server.xml.
  5. Remove the redirectPort attribute from the 9080 connector element so that the element looks like this example:
    <Connector port="9080" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192" 
      maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" maxSpareThreads="75" 
      enableLookups="false" acceptCount="100" 
      connectionTimeout="20000" disableUploadTimeout="true" 
      URIEncoding="UTF-8"/>
  6. Restart Apache Tomcat.
  7. Verify that you can log in using http://localhost:9080/jazz/admin and do not get redirected to https://localhost:9443/jazz/admin.

Modifying the WebSphere® Application Server settings

Procedure

  1. Modify the web.xml from the jazz .war file that was installed into WebSphere Application Server. Extract the jazz .war file into a temporary area first to retrieve to the file.
  2. Change all occurrences of "CONFIDENTIAL" to "NONE." (There should be three.)
  3. Make sure WebSphere Application Server is running and go to https://localhost:9043/ibm/console/logon.jsp.
  4. Go to the Applications > Enterprise Applications panel.
  5. Select the jazz_war application and click Update.
  6. Select the Replace or add a single file.
  7. In the Specify the path beginning with the installed application archive file to the file to be replaced or added field, enter "jazz.war/WEB-INF/web.xml".
  8. Click the Browse and select the same web.xml file that was modified in a previous step.
  9. Click next and follow through until the application has been saved.
  10. Go back to the Applications > Enterprise Applications panel and stop and start the jazz_war application.
  11. Verify that you can log in using http://localhost:9080/jazz/admin and do not get redirected to https://localhost:9443/jazz/admin.

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