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# Edit the plugins-sdk/build.properties so that app.server.dir=/path/to/your/liferay/tomcat | # Edit the plugins-sdk/build.properties so that app.server.dir=/path/to/your/liferay/tomcat | ||
# Run "ant war" - The war file will be created in the plugins-sdk/dist folder. | # Run "ant war" - The war file will be created in the plugins-sdk/dist folder. | ||
− | # Copy the war file to Liferay_home/deploy | + | # Copy the war file to Liferay_home/deploy |
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'''Configuration needed at liferay Web UI:'''<br/> | '''Configuration needed at liferay Web UI:'''<br/> | ||
# Create a custom attribute for users with key "dn" and type java.lang.String | # Create a custom attribute for users with key "dn" and type java.lang.String | ||
+ | # Make sure that in the Custom Attribute Permissions, Guest has View permission checked | ||
# The X509 User should have the custom attribute "dn" configured to the X509 certificate DN | # The X509 User should have the custom attribute "dn" configured to the X509 certificate DN | ||
Revision as of 13:48, 20 October 2010
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How to configure Apache HTTP server and Apache Tomcat to handle X.509 certificates
The following setup shows how to configure Apache HTTP server in HTTPS so that X.509 client credentials can be forwarded to an internal Apache Tomcat instance.
Apache HTTP server
Two VirtualHost should be configured. The first one to handle HTTP requests on standard port 80, and redirect all of them to port 443 (HTTPS).
<VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost ServerName myportal.mydomain.com DocumentRoot /var/www/ ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined ProxyPreserveHost on RewriteEngine on Redirect permanent / https://myportal.mydomain.com/ </VirtualHost>
The second virtual host is meant to handle HTTPS requests, asking clients to optionally authenticate with an X.509 certificates.
<VirtualHost *:443> ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost ServerName myportal.mydomain.com DocumentRoot /var/www/ <Directory /> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None </Directory> <Directory /var/www/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride None Order allow,deny allow from all </Directory> ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ <Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin"> AllowOverride None Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit, # alert, emerg. LogLevel warn CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined ServerSignature On Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/" <Directory "/usr/share/doc/"> Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128 </Directory> SSLEngine on SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/containercert.pem SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/containerkey.pem SSLProxyEngine on SSLCACertificatePath /etc/grid-security/certificates/ SSLVerifyClient optional SSLVerifyDepth 2 # this option is mandatory to force apache to forward the client cert data to tomcat SSLOptions +ExportCertData <Proxy *> AddDefaultCharset Off Order deny,allow Allow from all </Proxy> ProxyPass / ajp://localhost:8020/ ProxyPassReverse / ajp://localhost:8020/ </VirtualHost>
The connection between Apache HTTP Server and Apache Tomcat is done via an AJP connector and Reverse Proxy directive. This means that the following modules need to be installed and loaded into Apache HTTP Server:
* proxy * proxy_http * proxy_ajp
to install a new module into apache2 use the following command:
a2enmod <module_name>
Apache Tomcat
An AJP connector needs to be declared in order to enable communication between Apache HTTP Server and Apache Tomcat, with a redirect to port 8443 to handle the HTTPS connection inside Tomcat.
<!-- Define an AJP 1.3 Connector on port 8020 --> <Connector port="8020" enableLookups="false" redirectPort="8443" protocol="AJP/1.3" URIEncoding="UTF-8" />
Eventually, a Connector needs to declared for port 8443 to handle the HTTPS connection in Tomcat.
<Connector port="8443" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192" maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" maxSpareThreads="75" enableLookups="false" disableUploadTimeout="true" acceptCount="100" scheme="https" secure="true" clientAuth="want" sslProtocol="TLS" emptySessionPath="true" />
D4Science Portal HTTPS x509 Certificate Authentication
This is a custom Auto login hook that provides customised authentication for X509 certificate users.
Set the dev/deploy environment
- Unzip the file [1] onto your "plugin-sdk/hooks" folder.
- Copy the AutoLoginCustom.java(please find below) source to the src folder
- Add the following line to portal.properties file which is present in the /skeleton-hook/docroot/WEB-INF/src/ folder :
- auto.login.hooks=com.liferay.portal.security.auth.BasicAuthHeaderAutoLogin,com.liferay.portal.security.auth.AutoLoginCustom
- Edit the plugins-sdk/build.properties so that app.server.dir=/path/to/your/liferay/tomcat
- Run "ant war" - The war file will be created in the plugins-sdk/dist folder.
- Copy the war file to Liferay_home/deploy
- Copy portal-impl.jar in webapps/skeleton-hook/WEB-INF/lib/ (if not already there)
- Restart liferay instance
Auto Login hook is now ready to be tested and used.
Configuration needed at liferay Web UI:
- Create a custom attribute for users with key "dn" and type java.lang.String
- Make sure that in the Custom Attribute Permissions, Guest has View permission checked
- The X509 User should have the custom attribute "dn" configured to the X509 certificate DN
The code for AutoLoginCustom.java:
package com.liferay.portal.security.auth; import com.liferay.portal.SystemException; import com.liferay.portal.model.User; import com.liferay.portal.service.UserLocalServiceUtil; import java.io.Serializable; import java.security.cert.X509Certificate; import java.util.Iterator; import java.util.List; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse; import org.apache.commons.logging.Log; import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory; public class AutoLoginCustom implements AutoLogin{ private static Log logger = LogFactory.getLog(AutoLoginCustom.class); public String[] login(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp) throws AutoLoginException { // TODO Auto-generated method stub List<User> users = null; User loginUser = null; long userId = 0; String userDN; String userDNreverse; String[] credentials = new String[3];; String requestDN = this.getUserDN(req); if (requestDN != null){ try { users = UserLocalServiceUtil.getUsers(0, UserLocalServiceUtil.getUsersCount()); } catch (SystemException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } Iterator<User> userIter = users.iterator(); while (userIter.hasNext()){ credentials = new String[3]; User user = (User)userIter.next(); if(user.getExpandoBridge().hasAttribute("dn")){ Serializable dn = user.getExpandoBridge().getAttribute("dn"); if(dn!=null){ if(dn.toString().length()!=0){ // check the slash format for dn userDN = dn.toString(); if(userDN.contains("/")){ userDN = userDN.substring(1); } userDN = userDN.replaceAll("/", ","); userDNreverse=""; String[] dnParts = userDN.split(","); int dnPartsNo = dnParts.length; while(dnPartsNo>0){ dnPartsNo--; userDNreverse += dnParts[dnPartsNo]; if(dnPartsNo!=0){ userDNreverse += ","; } } if (userDN.equals(requestDN) || userDNreverse.equals(requestDN)){ loginUser = user; logger.info("X509 certificate user logs in: " + loginUser.getFirstName()); System.out.println("X509 certificate user logs in: " + loginUser.getFirstName()); break; } } } } } } if (loginUser!=null){ userId = loginUser.getUserId(); credentials[0]=String.valueOf(userId); credentials[1] = loginUser.getPassword(); credentials[2] = Boolean.FALSE.toString(); loginUser=null; } return credentials; } private X509Certificate[] getCerts(HttpServletRequest req) { return (X509Certificate[]) req.getAttribute("javax.servlet.request.X509Certificate"); } private String getUserDN(HttpServletRequest req) { X509Certificate certs[] = this.getCerts(req); if (certs != null && certs.length > 0) { String DN = certs[0].getSubjectDN().getName(); String parsedDN = DN.replace(", ", ","); return parsedDN; } else { return null; } } }
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