HTTP to HTTPS redirection on confluence

[Christine Cagakit-Ingco]

Hi Team,

I would like to ask your help on applying SSL on confluence. We have done the steps from 1 - 5 of this document https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf613/running-confluence-over-ssl-or-https-964961473.html however, we encounter error on accessing the site. 

Redirection from old 8090 url is different from 8443 URL. For example:

Old HTTP URL is: http://servername:8090 
New HTTPS UR is: https://servername.domain.com:8443

When we change web.xml as stated in step 5 of this document https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf613/running-confluence-over-ssl-or-https-964961473.html, we encountered mismatched address issue on certificate. How can we delete or avoid or is there a way that we can set the new name on web.xml or server.xml files? Thank you.

[Anton Chemlev -_ Toolstrek _-]

Hi,

What is the site address you issued certificate for?

[Christine Cagakit-Ingco]

Our previous URL is  http://(servername):8090/ not FQDN. The certificate has FQDN means  servername.company.com

http://servername.company.com:8443/

[Christine Cagakit-Ingco]

We have done some proxying on the server.xml that resolves the problem.

Modify the server.xml, since we have working http://servername, we need to do proxying and comment out default port.

> Comment out the Connector port="8090" code block
>Uncomment Connector port="8443", you can change it to 443 so users will not adding 8443 at the end of the URL.
>Add <Connector port="8090" protocol="HTTP/1.1" proxyName="example.com" connectionTimeout="20000" redirectPort="443"> this is an addition for the redirection to work, you need to redirect the site to a different name say http://servername.com to https://example.com.