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20070723 Monday July 23, 2007

Configuring reverse proxy in Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 when origin server is SSL enabled

Configuring reverse proxy in Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 when origin server is SSL enabled


In this blog I have tried to set up a scenario where a non SSL Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 tries to connect to origin server which is SSL enabled.
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Settings in Web Server 7.0 instance

Lets say we want to forward all requests to /xyz to the origin server. Go the Web Server instance config directory and modify the obj.conf as given below.
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Troubleshooting

In case we get a Gateway Timeout error and in error logs we see some error like

[23/Jul/2007:16:44:11] failure (27927): for host .... trying to GET ...., service-http reports: HTTP7758: error sending request (SEC_ERROR_UNTRUSTED_ISSUER: Client certificate is signed by an untrusted issuer.)

We get this error because the origin server's certificate was not issued by a trusted CA. It means we need to export CA certificate of the origin server instance and import it into Web Server instance.
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[Read More] Posted by meena ( Jul 23 2007, 07:13:46 PM IST ) Permalink Comments [0]

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