Is it possible to share HTTP and HTTPS ports at the same time?

Question

I've been trying to check is it possible to set both HTTP and HTTPS running at the same time, something like with URLs below.

http://alfresco.domain.com

https://alfresco.domain.com

My co-worker is developing a client for Alfresco and he would need to test that the client is working with both HTTP and HTTPS.

I've got alfresco 5.2 running on URL http://alfresco.domain.com:8080
Server is Ubuntu 16.04 with Apache2 installed.

My understanding is that I need to configure alfresco-global.properties as in document https://docs.alfresco.com/5.2/tasks/configure-ssl-prod.html but in this document there's only information about sharing https port.
Is it possible to share port 80 and 443 at the same time?

Other option what I'm thinking is to use URL http://alfresco.domain.com:8080 for HTTP testing as this way the user/client is connecting straight to tomcat. For HTTPS I'd configure as instructed in the document above and use URL https://alfresco.domain.com

iisti · Accepted Answer

I'm still not sure if it's possible to share both protocols at the same time, but I can access with both HTTP and HTTPS Alfresco 5.2 running on Ubuntu 16.04 with these steps. sudo a2enmod rewrite sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-jk sudo a2enmod proxy sudo a2enmod proxy_http sudo /opt/alfresco-community/alfresco.sh stop # Uncomment line below from server.xml sudo vim /opt/alfresco-community/tomcat/conf/server.xml # Check worker properties. These settings were automatically generated, nothing needed to be changed. sudo vim /etc/libapache2-mod-jk/workers.properties worker.list=ajp13_worker worker.ajp13_worker.port=8009 worker.ajp13_worker.host=localhost worker.ajp13_worker.type=ajp13 worker.ajp13_worker.lbfactor=1 # Apache configuration # If you don't have SSL certs you need to comment the SSL part out. You can generate SSL certs with certbot. # https://certbot.eff.org/lets-encrypt/ubuntuxenial-apache /etc/apache2$ cat sites-enabled/alfresco-https.example-domain.com.conf ServerAdmin it@example-domain.com ServerName alfresco-https.example-domain.com ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined ProxyPreserveHost On # Making sure that pgadmin4 is excluded from proxy ProxyPass /pgadmin4 ! ProxyPassReverse /pgadmin4 ! ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/ ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8080/ # Disable footer line (more security, by not giving apache version) # Source: https://www.tecmint.com/hide-apache-web-server-version-information/ ServerSignature Off ServerName alfresco-https.example-domain.com ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/https-error.log CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/https-access.log combined SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE.*" nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0 # JkOptions indicate to send SSL KEY SIZE, JkOptions +ForwardKeySize -ForwardDirectories # Using ajp13_worker as that's default setting in /etc/libapache2-mod-jk/workers.properties # Setting is created automatically when installnig libapache2-mod-jk # sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-jk JkMount /share ajp13_worker JkMount /share/* ajp13_worker JkMount /alfresco/webdav ajp13_worker JkMount /alfresco/webdav/* ajp13_worker JkMount / ajp13_worker JkMount /_vti_inf.html ajp13_worker JkMount /_vti_bin/* ajp13_worker JkMount /alfresco ajp13_worker JkMount /alfresco/ ajp13_worker JkMount /alfresco/aos ajp13_worker JkMount /alfresco/aos/* ajp13_worker JkMount /alfresco/images/* ajp13_worker JkMount /alfresco/css/* ajp13_worker # Un-comment these lines for public API access JkMount /alfresco/api/*/cmis/versions/* ajp13_worker JkMount /alfresco/api/*/public/cmis/versions/* ajp13_worker JkMount /alfresco/api/*/public/alfresco/versions/* ajp13_worker JkMount /alfresco/service/api/server ajp13_worker JkMount /alfresco/cmisatom/* ajp13_worker JkMount /alfresco/service/cmis/* ajp13_worker JkMount /alfresco/api/cmis/versions/* ajp13_worker # Un-comment these lines for Desktop Sync # JkMount /alfresco/api/*/private/alfresco/versions/* ajp13_worker SSLCertificateFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/alfresco-https.example-domain.com/fullchain.pem SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/letsencrypt/live/alfresco-https.example-domain.com/privkey.pem Include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-apache.conf # Disable footer line (more security, by not giving apache version) # Source: https://www.tecmint.com/hide-apache-web-server-version-information/ ServerSignature Off # vim: syntax=apache ts=4 sw=4 sts=4 sr noet # Check Apache configuration and restart it sudo apachectl configtest sudo apachectl restart # Start Alfresco sudo /opt/alfresco-community/alfresco.sh start # Check Alfresco starting logs to know when the server has really started. less +F /opt/alfresco-community/tomcat/logs/catalina.out # URLs below should work after Alfresco has been started. http://alfresco-https.example-domain.com http://alfresco-https.example-domain.com:8080 https://alfresco-https.example-domain.com I didn't change anything in alfresco-global.properties, but I haven't installed the server originally, so I'm not sure if something has been configured in there. Here's the whole file. alfresco-https:/opt/alfresco-community/tomcat/shared/classes$ sudo less alfresco-global.properties ############################### ## Common Alfresco Properties # ############################### dir.root=/opt/alfresco-community/alf_data alfresco.context=alfresco alfresco.host=127.0.0.1 alfresco.port=8080 alfresco.protocol=http share.context=share share.host=127.0.0.1 share.port=8080 share.protocol=http ### database connection properties ### db.driver=org.postgresql.Driver db.username=alfresco db.password=admin db.name=alfresco db.url=jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/${db.name} # Note: your database must also be able to accept at least this many connections. Please see your database documentation for instructions on how to configure this. db.pool.max=275 db.pool.validate.query=SELECT 1 # The server mode. Set value here # UNKNOWN | TEST | BACKUP | PRODUCTION system.serverMode=UNKNOWN ### FTP Server Configuration ### ftp.port=21 ### RMI registry port for JMX ### alfresco.rmi.services.port=50500 ### External executable locations ### ooo.exe=/opt/alfresco-community/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin ooo.enabled=true ooo.port=8100 img.root=/opt/alfresco-community/common img.dyn=${img.root}/lib img.exe=${img.root}/bin/convert alfresco-pdf-renderer.root=/opt/alfresco-community/common/alfresco-pdf-renderer alfresco-pdf-renderer.exe=${alfresco-pdf-renderer.root}/alfresco-pdf-renderer jodconverter.enabled=false jodconverter.officeHome=/opt/alfresco-community/libreoffice jodconverter.portNumbers=8100 ### Initial admin password ### alfresco_user_store.adminpassword=209c6174da490caeb422f3fa5a7ae634 ### E-mail site invitation setting ### notification.email.siteinvite=false ### License location ### dir.license.external=/opt/alfresco-community ### Solr indexing ### index.subsystem.name=solr4 dir.keystore=${dir.root}/keystore solr.host=localhost solr.port.ssl=8443 alfresco-global.properties