Crowd and SSL

[lance_lyons]

Hi We have Jira, Confluence, Bamboo and Crucible all setup in an SSL configuration so each site is https://sitename, etc. Each of these have user directories in crowd that is connected to applications that have an directory connected to our windows active directory. The connection to crowd in each application uses http://crowd.onlifehealth.com (Non SSL). We are wanting to implement SSL for our crowd connections as well.

The assumption is the site would now be https://crowd.onlifehealth.com.

I am curious what the best way of doing this is.

We attempted to set up the crowd site in apache (was already setup to reverse proxy to the tomcat app on our server http://corp-jiraweb:8095).

So we made the changes to our apache vhosts section as shown at the bottom highlighted.

We did nothing to the server.xml file in crowd

We changed the crowd.properties to reflect the new URL https.

We added the certs to the java keystores that each app uses.

Also all of our apps run on dedicated IP addresses and we have these setup in the vhost section to reverse proxy to the actual port on the server.

NameVirtualHost 10.243.2.193:80


<VirtualHost 10.243.2.193:80>
ServerName jira.onlifehealth.com
Redirect / https://jira.onlifehealth.com/

</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 10.243.3.9:80>
ServerName crucible.onlifehealth.com
Redirect / https://crucible.onlifehealth.com/

</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 10.243.3.8:80>
ServerName bamboo.onlifehealth.com
Redirect / https://bamboo.onlifehealth.com/

</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 10.243.3.10:80>
ServerName confluence.onlifehealth.com
Redirect / https://confluence.onlifehealth.com/

</VirtualHost>

NameVirtualHost 10.243.3.11:80

<VirtualHost 10.243.3.11:80>
ServerName crowd.onlifehealth.com
Redirect / https://crowd.onlifehealth.com/

</VirtualHost>



NameVirtualHost 10.243.3.11:443
<VirtualHost 10.243.3.11:443>
ServerName crowd.onlifehealth.com

ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPreserveHost On
<Proxy *>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Proxy>

SSLEngine On
SSLCertificateFile "C:/Program Files (x86)/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/conf/ssl/crowd.cert"
SSLCertificateKeyFile "C:/Program Files (x86)/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/conf/ssl/crowd.key"

ProxyPass / http://corp-jiraweb:8095/

ProxyPassReverse / http://corp-jiraweb:8095/

<Location />
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Location>
</VirtualHost>

NameVirtualHost 10.243.3.10:443

<VirtualHost 10.243.3.10:443>
ServerName confluence.onlifehealth.com
ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPreserveHost On
<Proxy *>

Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Proxy>
SSLEngine On
SSLCertificateFile "C:/Program Files (x86)/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/conf/ssl/confluence.cert"
SSLCertificateKeyFile "C:/Program Files (x86)/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/conf/ssl/confluence.key"

ProxyPass / ajp://corp-jiraweb:8019/

ProxyPassReverse / ajp://corp-jiraweb:8019/

<Location />
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Location>



</VirtualHost>

NameVirtualHost 10.243.2.193:443

<VirtualHost 10.243.2.193:443>
ServerName jira.onlifehealth.com

ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPreserveHost On
<Proxy *>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Proxy>

SSLEngine On
SSLCertificateFile "C:/Program Files (x86)/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/conf/ssl/jira.cert"
SSLCertificateKeyFile "C:/Program Files (x86)/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/conf/ssl/jira.key"

ProxyPass / ajp://corp-jiraweb:8009/
ProxyPassReverse / ajp://corp-jiraweb:8009

<Location />

Order allow,deny
Allow from all

</Location>
</VirtualHost>

NameVirtualHost 10.243.3.9:443

<VirtualHost 10.243.3.9:443>
ServerName crucible.onlifehealth.com

ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPreserveHost On
<Proxy *>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Proxy>

SSLEngine On
SSLCertificateFile "C:/Program Files (x86)/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/conf/ssl/crucible.cert"
SSLCertificateKeyFile "C:/Program Files (x86)/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/conf/ssl/crucible.key"

ProxyPass / http://corp-jiraweb:8060/
ProxyPassReverse / http://corp-jiraweb:8060/

<Location />
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Location>
</VirtualHost>




NameVirtualHost 10.243.3.8:443
<VirtualHost 10.243.3.8:443>
ServerName bamboo.onlifehealth.com

ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPreserveHost On
<Proxy *>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Proxy>

SSLEngine On
SSLCertificateFile "C:/Program Files (x86)/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/conf/ssl/bamboo.cert"
SSLCertificateKeyFile "C:/Program Files (x86)/Apache Software Foundation/Apache2.2/conf/ssl/bamboo.key"


ProxyPass / http://corp-jiraweb:8084/
ProxyPassReverse / http://corp-jiraweb:8084/

<Location />
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Location>
</VirtualHost>

Are we doing this the right way?

Any suggestions?

[PauloP]

Hi Lance

The settings related to Apache seems to be OK. However, I would suggest to review the HTTP context from Crowd side and enable the tags proxyName= and proxyPort=.

For further details, please use the following link as your guideline:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Integrating+JIRA+with+Apache+using+SSL#IntegratingJIRAwithApacheusingSSL-Note:AlternativeconfigurationifHTTPSisterminatedontheproxyserver

Cheers,

Paulo Renato