CAS Server Setup Problems with Apache 2 over Tomcat 5.5

[Kristina P. Boysen]

I'm currently trying to setup a CAS server on a machine running Apache 2 
through SSL, connected via mod_jk to my Tomcat server.  The demo CAS 
setup worked on my local machine, but when I moved it to the server 
(with some tweaks to the database username access), I can't access the 
page at https://myserver/cas.  Firefox seems to partially load the page 
but then stops short of actually rendering the normal login page.  I'm 
not getting any error messages in my log files, and even setting it on 
DEBUG doesn't seem to reveal anything.  I've looked around the web, and 
I'm wondering if its SSL-related.  I've seen things about the JVM 
keystore, but a lot of those examples seem to be about running Tomcat as 
the SSL endpoint and not Apache (which I probably want).  So I'm wondering

* if Apache is handling SSL, then does Tomcat also have to have the key 
in its keystore for the account running tomcat?
* in this situation, are there any changes to cas.properties that I must 
make?
* could there be any other configuration issues that I don't know about?

Here are my system specs:
Tomcat 5.5
Apache 2.2
Sun JVM: 1.6.0_03
CAS Server 3.1.1

I'm quite new to handling SSL, so thanks in advance for any help.

Kristina

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Kristina Boysen

Masters Graduate Student
Department of Computer Science
Iowa State University
Email: kboysen at iastate.edu