I am using Tomcat 6, so firstly you need to enable HTTPS in Tomcat:
1) Create a keystore with the following command and enter the required values:
keytool -genkey -alias tomcat -keyalg RSA -validity 365
2) Then copy this file to a directory e.g. /usr/share/tomcat6/.keystore
3) Edit the Tomcat server.xml e.g. /etc/tomcat6/server.xml and add the following section inside the <Service name="Catalina"> tag
<Connector port="8443" protocol="HTTP/1.1" SSLEnabled="true"
maxThreads="150" scheme="https" secure="true"
keystorePass="yourkeystorepassword" keystoreFile="/usr/share/tomcat6/.keystore"
clientAuth="false" sslProtocol="TLS" />
(replace yourkeystorepassword with the password you used in step 1)
4) Restart Tomcat and test that you can access Tomcat via HTTPS on port 8443 (you will get a certificate error in your browser as it's not a trusted certificate).
Now onto AXIS2:
5) I downloaded the axis2.war file.
6) Extract the war file with unzip to a empty directory.
7) Edit the WEB-INF/conf/axis2.xml file
8) Change this:
<transportReceiver name="http"
class="org.apache.axis2.transport.http.AxisServletListener"/>
to this:
<transportReceiver name="http"
class="org.apache.axis2.transport.http.AxisServletListener">
<parameter name="port">8080</parameter>
</transportReceiver>
<transportReceiver name="https"
class="org.apache.axis2.transport.http.AxisServletListener">
<parameter name="port">8443</parameter>
</transportReceiver>
9) Now restart Tomcat and go to the HappyAxis(https://localhost:8443/axis2/axis2-web/HappyAxis.jsp) page. You'll see you get some internal server error. This is because Tomcat does not have the keystore configured for AXIS2 to use.
I fixed this by adding the following JAVA_OPT options:
JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=\"/usr/share/tomcat6/.keystore\" - Djavax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword=\"yourkeystorepassword\""
(replace yourkeystorepassword with the password you used in step 1)
10) Check HappyAxis page and WSDL -> https://localhost:8443/axis2/services/Version?wsdl
All done no mess no fuss :)
