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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<beans>     ...     <bean id="Server" depends-on="jettyPort" class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server" init-method="start" destroy-method="stop">           <property name="connectors">             <list>                 <bean id="SecureConnector" class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.ssl.SslSelectChannelConnector">                     <property name="port" value="8162">                     <property name="keystore" value="file:${activemq.conf}/broker.ks">                     <property name="password" value="amqadmin@">                 </property></property></property></bean>               </list>         </property>           <property name="handler">             <bean id="handlers" class="org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerCollection">                 <property name="handlers">                     <list>                         <ref bean="contexts">                         <ref bean="securityHandler">                     </ref></ref></list>                 </property>             </bean>         </property>       </bean>   </beans>

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].