CAS Behind Apache HTTPD

[Scott Battaglia]

We run CAS and all of our applications behind Apache and have not had any
issues.  Acegi should be fine as its underlying client is the Yale CAS
client.

-Scott

On 8/17/07, Bill Bailey <Bill.Bailey at northlandchurch.net> wrote:
>
> Thanks, Matt. That is encouraging since I will probably start setting
> things up today. I'll hit the list again if I run into more specific
> questions.
>
> Bill
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cas-bounces at tp.its.yale.edu [mailto:cas-bounces at tp.its.yale.edu]
> On Behalf Of Smith, Matt
> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 5:02 PM
> To: Yale CAS mailing list; Yale CAS mailing list
> Subject: RE: CAS Behind Apache HTTPD
>
> Bill-
>   Most of my CAS protected apps are tucked away behind Apache.  I've
> been using the stock Yale Java client for a while, and have recently
> tried out the JA-SIG client, both with success in this configuration.  I
> have not (yet) tried the Acegi client.  Essentially, the mod_jk or
> mod_proxy_ajp that you are using to forward the requests from Apache to
> Tomcat's AJP port (generally 8009) just does the *Right Thing* for you
> as far as URL mapping goes.
>
> HTH,
> -Matt
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cas-bounces at tp.its.yale.edu on behalf of Bill Bailey
> Sent: Thu 2007-08-16 16:06
> To: Yale CAS mailing list
> Subject: CAS Behind Apache HTTPD
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I have CAS configured and running under Tomcat and so far all is well.
> However, in production we will be introducing Apache HTTPD in between
> the users and Tomcat. All requests will come in on port 80 or 443 to
> Apache HTTPD which will forward the requests to Tomcat where necessary.
> I should also note that we are using ACEGI security as well.
>
>
>
> In theory, this doesn't seem like it should cause any problems, but
> since CAS is heavily reliant on HTTPS and ACEGI requires URL's to be
> configured in numerous places, I sense at least the potential for
> problems in getting the setup right. Is anyone else running in a similar
> configuration? Does anyone have any experiences to report or warnings or
> suggestions?
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Bill Bailey
>
> Senior Developer / DBA
> Northland, A Church Distributed
>
>
>
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