Re: https and WO

From: Chuck Hill (chil..lobal-village.net)
Date: Tue Jul 31 2007 - 13:29:14 EDT

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    On Jul 31, 2007, at 9:40 AM, Aaron Hipple wrote:

    > Hello all,
    >
    > I have a NOOB question, that may not have much at all to do with
    > WO. However, I am trying to get my WO projects to work securely
    > over https on my Mac OS X 10.4 development machine. I can test my
    > WO projects (and the Chap4App example from Practical WebObjects)
    > fine on http. I have set up the certificates on my machine so I
    > can browse to https://localhost or https://127.0.0.1 (I followed
    > instructions at http://developer.apple.com/internet/serverside/
    > modssl.html).
    >
    > But, when I try to follow a secure WOHyperlink in the Chap4App
    > example program, I get the following error:
    >
    > cant open page "https://computer-name.local:443/cgi-bin/
    > WebObjects/..." because it couldn't establish a secure connection
    > to the server computer-name.local
    >
    > So I am guessing it has something to do with the fact that computer-
    > name.local is not the same thing as localhost. But, where do I
    > address this issue, in my httpd.conf or in the WO project? Also,
    > what about the port number? I cannot bind my WOPort to 443, is
    > there somewhere else I have to make the connection between the port
    > WO is running on and the secure port 443?

    Go to Run - Run... and look at the launch configuration your are
    using. Click on the WO tab. Add -WOHost (note the - ) with a value
    of localhost.

    Chuck

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