How to Install Tomcat on Windows and Enable HTTPS / SSL

[wraithdu]

Also, you might want to include some instructions on how to update JWPlayer to the latest version:

1) Download the JWPlayer archive and extract 'player.swf' to

C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\webapps\subsonic\flash\jw-player-5.3.swf

2) Modify the following lines in the following files:

--> C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\webapps\subsonic\WEB-INF\jsp\playlist.jsp
-----> swfobject.embedSWF("<c:url value="/flash/jw-player-5.3.swf"/>", "placeholder", "340", "24", "9.0.0", false, flashvars, params, attributes);

--> C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\webapps\subsonic\WEB-INF\jsp\videoPlayer.jsp
-----> swfobject.embedSWF("<c:url value="/flash/jw-player-5.3.swf"/>", "placeholder1", "100%", "100%", "9.0.0", false, flashvars, params, attributes);

Where 'jw-player-5.3.swf' is the name of the new player you extracted from the JWPlayer archive in step 1.

[seanpkeown]

wraithdu,

I think i found everything. If you see anything else that i need to change feel free to let me know.


Thanks again,
Sean K

[bry1128]

I followed your instructions and once I actually typed everything correctly it worked!

Thanks for the guide.

The only thing I could think to add would be double check the firewall and where to find the logs if things go wrong.

[seanpkeown]

I followed your instructions and once I actually typed everything correctly it worked!

Thanks for the guide.

The only thing I could think to add would be double check the firewall and where to find the logs if things go wrong.

Hi bry1128,
I'll add a note about looking at the firewall. That's always something that can easily be overlooked. Thanks for letting me know that the tutorial worked.

~ Sean K

[bry1128]

I rebooted the server and tomcat didn't start. If I set the service to automatic will that fix it?

I had subsonic installed before. Can I unistall the old install without issue?

[seanpkeown]

I rebooted the server and tomcat didn't start. If I set the service to automatic will that fix it?

I had subsonic installed before. Can I unistall the old install without issue?

You should be able to uninstall subsonic without any issues but it's probably a good idea to make a backup of c:\subsonic just in case it gets deleted. It's a small folder so it won't be a big deal.

And yes, make sure that tomcat is set to automatic. I think i checked that when installing tomcat but didn't think to mention that in the tutorial.

~ Sean K

[bry1128]

seanpkeown wrote:

You should be able to uninstall subsonic without any issues but it's probably a good idea to make a backup of c:\subsonic just in case it gets deleted. It's a small folder so it won't be a big deal.

I uninstalled the program, it asks you during the install where the install directory is. It left the new directory of c:\subsonic alone.

[guitargurus]

Thank you for the great tutorial, just what I was looking for. I do have one question, if I wanted to buy a signed SSL cert, how would I go about installing it?

Thanks again

[seanpkeown]

Thank you for the great tutorial, just what I was looking for. I do have one question, if I wanted to buy a signed SSL cert, how would I go about installing it?

Thanks again

Sorry for the delay, lots to do during the holidays. To be honest i've always created my own because i'm cheap.

But here are a couple links that explain what you need and how to install one. I know that you have to first own a domain name and possibly a static ip address for your home and the name.subsonic.org won't work. Then you have to generate a CSR "certificate singing request" from your server then send it off to digicert or verisign and they will send you a key vs you creating one yourself. I think that the price can go anywhere from $12 dollars a year to $249 a year for a certificate all depending on who you buy one from and how much they will cover when you get hacked into.

https://www.sslshopper.com/tomcat-ssl-installation-instructions.html
https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/ssl-howto.html


Use this command to create the key.

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keytool -genkey -keyalg RSA -keystore domain.key -alias keyname

Then use this to create the CSR

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keytool -certreq -keyalg RSA -file domain.csr -keystore domain.key -alias keyname

Wish i was more help,
~ Sean K

[guitargurus]

Thanks! Actually, I had already figured this one out, just never updated my post. A great place to get a good, cheap cert is namecheap. They resell rapidssl certs for 10/year. Good price and i can confirm they are fully compatible with tomcat. Thanks again for the great info!

[ShadowVlican]

thanks for this guide! now i don't have to suffer with crappy jetty/win2k3 issues anymore!

i don't have a use for SSL (don't need it taking up unnecessary bandwidth and processing power), so i just changed the default tomcat port (8080) to another port and now just streaming unencrypted

don't care if anyone snoops my password, since i use a unique password for subsonic

thanks again!

edit: iSub doesn't seem to work reliably with tomcat... don't know why...

[seanpkeown]

edit: iSub doesn't seem to work reliably with tomcat... don't know why...

Thats horrible news. Whats it do?

~ Sean K

[JanoLapin]

Note: I tried running subsonic on tomcat 7.0 but it kept returning with CSRF errors so i installed tomcat 6.0 and subsonic has worked great.

Hi,

Thanks for this tutorial, it works great

But i have an question, i tried Tomcat 7, I had CSRF error, i tried to fix it but without success.
Have you a solution for use Tomcat 7 with Subsonic ?

[bry1128]

I tried upgrading by emptying the contents of c:\program files\apache Software foundation\tomcat 6.0\subsonic and deleting the war however the upgrade didn't happen. I replaced 4.2 and everything came back. Is there some changes to update to 4.4?

[seanpkeown]

I tried upgrading by emptying the contents of c:\program files\apache Software foundation\tomcat 6.0\subsonic and deleting the war however the upgrade didn't happen. I replaced 4.2 and everything came back. Is there some changes to update to 4.4?

Go to >

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c:\program files\apache Software foundation\tomcat 6.0\webapps

and delete the file called subsonic.war and the folder called subsonic. Then download the new .war file and place it in

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c:\program files\apache Software foundation\tomcat 6.0\webapps

Note: you might need to reboot the tomcat service.

~ Sean K