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Apache's Tomcat java application server, can be secured using SSL in two ways.
Servlet Container - A web server like Apache or Internet Information Server redirects requests to Tomcat.
Standalone - Tomcat acts as the sole webserver handling all requests.
There are multiple versions of Tomcat that are used, and each has a unique requirement for configuration. As of this writting Apache has the following versions of tomcat documented on their web site:
Tomcat 6.0
Tomcat 5.5
Tomcat 4.1
All of the documentation for these servers is maintained on the tomcat.apache.org website. Under the appropriate version of Tomcat you are interested in securing is a section titled "SSL". This section will contain the necessary steps for setting up SSL with Tomcat and is repeated in part in this document in the Standalone section.
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