Quickref: Using HTTPS (SSL) on vOPS Standard

By default, vOPS Standard's web GUI responds on both HTTP (80) and HTTPS (443), but you can block HTTP access to our appliance by removing HTTP from the allowed protocols on the appliance's firewall:

Accessing the appliance via SSH or the VMWare console, edit the file "/etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2" as root with your favorite editor and go to the line called FW_SERVICES_EXT_TCP and remove "http" from the entries on the line.

Write your changes the file, then run /sbin/SuSEfirewall2

You will now only be able to use HTTPS to access the appliance GUI.

Automatic re-direction is presently not supported, so set up a bookmark which includes https:// so you can reach it.

If you would like to configure a purchased SSL certificate for the appliance, you can do so following the normal procedure for Apache Tomcat as described here: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-3.3-doc/tomcat-ssl-howto.html#s8