TC4 SSL HOWTO

[Christopher Cain <cc...@mhsoftware.com>]

Okay, I finally got around to writing that SSL HOWTO I kept promising. It's 
attached.

Yeah, yeah, it's a plain old text file. I can't be bothered with XHTML or 
DocBooks at 2:00am =)

Seriously, though, the doc format stuff is still kind of up in the air AFAIK, 
and I wasn't sure how or where (or if) this would make sense in the tree, so 
let me know if you want it in a certain format and I'll see what I can do.

As always, feel free to read it, rip it apart, suggest corrections, anything. I 
went with this basic approach:

Section 1: Quickstart (the wham-bam summary for experts)

Section 2: Fluffy stuff (A brief tour of "What is SSL," "SSL and Tomcat", "Tips 
on Running SSL", etc.)

Section 3: Detailed install/config steps

Section 4: Troubleshooting (all common mistakes/exceptions and their remedies)

If you think it's too much, let me know.

Also, I'll make the minor changes necessary and fire off a TC 3.3 version in 
the morning.

Love to the family,

- Christopher

Re: TC4 SSL HOWTO

[Christopher Cain <cc...@mhsoftware.com>]

Oops ... one other thing. If someone decides to commit this as-is, please 
add '(passwords: "changeit")' to Step 3 of the QUICKSTART section.

- Christopher

Re: TC4 SSL HOWTO

["Craig R. McClanahan" <cr...@apache.org>]

On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Christopher Cain wrote:

> Okay, I finally got around to writing that SSL HOWTO I kept promising. It's 
> attached.
> 

Cool!

> Yeah, yeah, it's a plain old text file. I can't be bothered with XHTML or 
> DocBooks at 2:00am =)
> 

That's OK ... the content is the important part, not the formatting :-)

> Seriously, though, the doc format stuff is still kind of up in the air AFAIK, 
> and I wasn't sure how or where (or if) this would make sense in the tree, so 
> let me know if you want it in a certain format and I'll see what I can do.
> 

I'll go ahead and XML-ize it in the tomcat-docs style I've been using.  I
haven't heard any feedback (other than that the stupid XML parsers on
Windows won't do includes of relative paths correctly, which I need to
figure out a workaround for), so I'm going on the "lazy
consensus" assumption until someone gripes about that approach and
suggests something different/better.

> As always, feel free to read it, rip it apart, suggest corrections, anything. I 
> went with this basic approach:
> 
> Section 1: Quickstart (the wham-bam summary for experts)
> 
> Section 2: Fluffy stuff (A brief tour of "What is SSL," "SSL and Tomcat", "Tips 
> on Running SSL", etc.)
> 
> Section 3: Detailed install/config steps
> 
> Section 4: Troubleshooting (all common mistakes/exceptions and their remedies)
> 
> If you think it's too much, let me know.
> 
> Also, I'll make the minor changes necessary and fire off a TC 3.3 version in 
> the morning.
> 
> Love to the family,
> 
> - Christopher

Craig