WebProtegeHttpsLogin

Securing the WebProtege login window using SSL

WebProtege uses a form of client-side encryption for the http login configured by default. To use the more secure SSL login in Tomcat, start by enabling the https property in your protege.properties file.

http://webprotege.stanford.edu

14 Aug 2009: build 200 now available
01 Aug 2009: build 103 now available - compatible with Protege 3.4.1 release and upgraded to GWT 1.7
03 Apr 2009: build 102 now available - compatible with Protege 3.4 release
26 Oct 2008: We are very pleased to announce the initial release of WebProtege 0.5 alpha

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Generate a Key

If you do not have a signed certificate from a certifying authority, you will need to generate a dummy certificate that webprotege can use. Enter a password value of webprotege when prompted, and be sure to keep a record of where you save the keystore to.

windows:

%JAVA_HOME%\bin\keytool -genkey -alias tomcat -keyalg RSA -keystore \path\to\my\keystore 

unix:

$JAVA_HOME/bin/keytool -genkey -alias tomcat -keyalg RSA -keystore /path/to/my/keystore

Configure Tomcat to Use HTTPS

For Tomcat to use https, some additional configuration is required.

Edit the server.xml

Now begin editing your server.xml file at $TOMCAT_HOME/conf:

<-- Define a SSL Coyote HTTP/1.1 Connector on port 8443 -->
<Connector port="443" protocol="HTTP/1.1" SSLEnabled="true"
               maxThreads="150" scheme="https" secure="true"
               clientAuth="false" sslProtocol="TLS" keystoreFile="/path/to/my/keystore/.keystore" keystorePass="webprotege"/>

A short user guide with screenshots describing the main user interface elements in WebProtege.

Download and Install - Administrator's Guide

A step-by-step guide for site administrators who want to download and install WebProtege.

Developer's Guide

A guide for developers who want to compile and run WebProtege from an IDE.

Screenshots

Viewing the list of available ontologies on the server:

My WebProtege tab

Viewing the class tree for the NCI Thesaurus:

Classes tab

WebProtege Roadmap

To see what our future plans for WebProtege are, and to add feature requests, please go to the WebProtege roadmap wiki page.

About WebProtege

WebProtege is currently under development by the Protege team at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research.

Contact Us

If you have questions or comments, please post them on the protege-discussion mailing list.