SiteMinder Agent for SharePoint Guide › Advanced Options › How to Protect the Claims WS Service using SSL › Edit the server.conf file used by the Agent for SharePoint

Edit the server.conf file used by the Agent for SharePoint

Part of protecting the Claims WS service with SSL involves updating the following settings in the server.conf file used by the Agent for SharePoint:

• The local SSL port number.
• The path to the key store on the host of the Agent for SharePoint.

Follow these steps:

Note: This procedure provides one possible example of how to configure this feature using third-party tools. CA Technologies did not develop nor provide these tools. These tools are subject to change at any time by the third party without notice. Use this procedure as a guide for configuring this feature in your specific environment. The actual steps required in your situation could be different from the steps that are shown here.

1. Open the following file:

   Agent-for-SharePoint_home\proxy-engine\conf\server.conf
   

2. Locate the following section of the file:

   <localapp>
   

3. In the <localapp> section, locate the following line:

   #local.https.port=port_number
   

4. Remove the # from the beginning of the line. Verify that the port number following the equal sign matches the one you entered for the Claims WS service SSL port in the SharePoint configuration wizard.
5. Locate the following line:

   #local.https.keyStoreFileName="tomcat.keystore"
   

6. Remove the # from the beginning of the line. Replace the tomcat.keystore with the relative path to the keystore you created to store the keys used for the protection of the Claims WS service.
7. Save and close the file.
8. Restart the Agent for SharePoint.