Securing Communications Express

Question

Hi
Before enabling SSL on web server, I configured Messaging SSO to Communciations Express. This configuration was needed since the authentication to Comm Express redirected me to Messager Express login.
Now that Communications Express is running on port 443, the authentication does not work anymore. I guess that I need to reset the SSO configutil parameters that were set to port 80. Right?
Also in uwcauth.properties, the HTTP Port number of Communications Express is sill set to 80:
uwcauth.http.port=80
Do I need to comment this line?
thx

Answer 1

Just a couple hints,
This is for the older "Trusted Circle" SSO. If you're using the new SSO for Access Manager, ignore this reply.
SSO over SSL will NOT work. I spent a day playing with it, after getting it working over the non-SSL ports. THEN I stumbled across the statement in the docs confirming it. :-)
I do have UWC, Messaging and calendar servers all running on my test machine. They use ports 80/443, 81/444 and 82/445 respectively.
As for SSL on UWC, you'll need to configure it in a couple places. First, the listener port for the web container needs to listen on SSL and non-SSL ports. Then the UWC web app file uwcauth.properties has a couple settings. You have a decision to make, SSL for login/authentication only or SSL for the entire session. The UWC admin docs explain this.
And my final bit of advice, read the UWC admin guide thoroughly. The Messaging Admin guide gives more concise SSO examples, but it leaves out some UWC specific info that you'll find in the UWC Admin guide.
HTH,
Roger S.