Institutional Knowledge

The Apache Group has a fine howto for getting SSL going. But someday you might run into a situation where Tomcat has had the default server.xml trimmed down. At that time you might start running into odd errors, like:

It would behoove you at this point to ensure that the Connector configuration for your secure port is specifying the className attribute.

        <connector port="443" 
                   className="org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteConnector"
        ...
        />

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