Disabling security certificate settings

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

About this task

Important: The information below explains how to disable the SSL certificate. Following these steps allows unencrypted connections to the server, including user login credentials. If you require secure connections, create your own self-signed certificate identifying the host by its proper network name, or request a certificate signed by a trusted certificate authority (CA).

Modifying the Apache Tomcat settings

Procedure

  1. Make sure you have started Apache Tomcat at least once already.
  2. Go to the JazzInstallDir/server/tomcat/webapps/jazz/WEB-INF directory.
  3. Edit the web.xml file in this directory and change all occurences 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 appears as follows:
    <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 login 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. You may need to extract the jazz .war file into a temporary area first to get to the file.
  2. Change all occurrences of "CONFIDENTIAL" to "NONE" (There should be 3).
  3. Make sure WebSphere Application Server is running and goto https://localhost:9043/ibm/console/logon.jsp.
  4. Goto the Applications > Enterprise Applications page.
  5. Select the jazz_war application and click the Update button.
  6. Select the "Replace or add a single file" radio button option.
  7. In the "Specify the path beginning with the installed application archive file to the file to be replaced or added." entry field, enter "jazz.war/WEB-INF/web.xml".
  8. Click the browse button and select the same web.xml that was modified in an earlier step.
  9. Click next and follow through until the application has been saved.
  10. Go back to the Applications->Enterprise Applications page and stop and start the jazz_war application.
  11. Verify that you can login using http://localhost:9080/jazz/admin and not get redirected to https://localhost:9443/jazz/admin.

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