Enable HTTPS For ActiveMQ Brower

Introduction

ActiveMQ embedded web console is jetty. In enterprise applications, plain http is not recommended. Thus we should enable HTTPS. In my previous blogs, I have demonstrated how to enable nio+ssl for mutual authentication or one-way authentication. In this blog, I am going to show you how to enable HTTPS for the embedded ActiveMQ console.

Configuration Changes

The configuration file we need to change is ${AMQ_HOME}/conf/jetty.xml. Uncomment out the bean with id of "SecureConnecor" and remove the id with "Connector" as shown below:

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Run The ActiveMQ

Start ActiveMQ the same way as before. Go to brower with URL of https://hostname:8162, use the same user id and password [admin/admin].