Declaring the Cloudant SSL configuration for a project WAR file

If you deploy a project WAR file into WebSphere® Application Server or WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment, you use a Cloudant® database, and meet specific criteria described in this topic, you must declare the Cloudant SSL configuration.

About this task

You must perform this procedure if you meet all of the following criteria:
  • You are deploying a project WAR file into WebSphere Application Server or WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment.
  • You use a Cloudant database for this web application.
  • The Cloudant database server URL uses the https protocol.
  • You created a separate SSL configuration for Cloudant, as described in Configuring WebSphere Application Server for use with Cloudant, but did not create a dynamic outbound configuration for it.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the WebSphere Application Server console.
  2. Select Applications > Application Types > WebSphere enterprise applications.
  3. Click the web application that corresponds to the project WAR file.
  4. In the Web Module Properties section, select Environment entries for Web modules.
  5. Set the value of the property mfp.db.cloudant.ssl.configuration to the name of the SSL configuration that you created.
  6. Click OK.
  7. Click Save.
Parent topic: Deploying the project WAR file