Disabling security certificate settings

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

  1. Make sure that 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, changing 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.
    <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

  1. Modify the web.xml from the jazz .war file that was installed into WebSphere® Application Server. You might need to extract the jazz .war file into a temporary area first to access the file.
  2. Change all occurrences of CONFIDENTIAL to "NONE (Typically there should be three instances of CONFIDENTIAL).
  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. Click Replace or add a single file .
  7. In Specify the path beginning with the installed application archive file to the file to be replaced or added, type jazz.war/WEB-INF/web.xml.
  8. Click the Browse button and select the same web.xml that you modified in an earlier step.
  9. Click Next and follow on-screen instructions until you save the application.
  10. Click Applications->Enterprise Applications, and then stop and start the jazz_war application.
  11. Verify that you can login using http://localhost:9080/jazz/admin without being redirected to https://localhost:9443/jazz/admin.

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