Re: Assorted questions and musings, Re: So has anybody come up with a solution for certificate automation that will work on a Midrange box?

On 4/3/26 10:29 AM, Jim Oberholtzer wrote:

It is Apache in current versions.

Realize that James is often times referring to very, very old OS versions. Prior to adopting Apache, IBM had their own HTTP server that was a branch of Apache (not entirely accurate but close enough)

Very true, I'm afraid.

When it became apparent that (1) DCM was an enormous pain in the butt, and (2) the simplest, easiest to maintain solution for the web front-end on our CRM application was to run it in Tomcat, downloaded directly from Apache's Tomcat site, using JSSE for SSL, with the cert in a Java Keystore, I pretty much started completely ignoring what IBM was providing, other than Java support.

And on top of that, I can practically configure TLS for Tomcat in my sleep, but I don't dare do so for httpd without having the docs handy, because things can be in so many different places.

So I have no idea when it was that IBM switched from Apache-like to real Apache httpd. I am a bit puzzled. Am I to understand that you're no longer forced to use DCM? Does it still have the capability of using DCM?

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JHHL