4.0 SP5 dswsbobje Web Services on Tomcat 7

[system]

We are experiencing this issue when listing the web services on Tomcat 7. We use SAP BusinessObjects 4.0 SP5
https://<web_server>:8443/dwwsbobje/services/ListServices

SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet [AxisServlet] in context with path [/dswsbobje] threw exception [https is forbidden] with root cause
javax.servlet.ServletException: https is forbidden

We tried a number of SAP Notes with no result.

@SAP Note

Note 1808066 - BI platform web services (dswsbobje) do not work on Tomcat 7
Note 1809210 - Internal server error with HTTPS configured on tomcat while navigating to https://servername:portno/dswsbobje/services page from a browser
Note 1645930 - Error: Impossible to log " on ‘http://server/dswsbobje/services/Session’.
Note 1668854 - Vulnerability on Apache Axis2 Component dswsbobje
Note 1645930 - Error: Impossible to log " on ‘http://server/dswsbobje/services/Session’.

Tried this workaround and no success

@ADAPT01634294

ADAPT01634294 - Web Intelligence: Manage BI Services fails when a Tomcat https only connection is used

The problem is linked to the new version of the third party used in SP05 named Axis1.6.2. This issue is already known by the community of Axis users.

To solve this problem:
This information has been found in http://axis.apache.org/axis2/java/core/docs/servlet-transport.html
1.Stop the application server (ie tomcat)
2.Configure the axis2.xml files: Search of all axis2.xml and apply the following process:
Add or replace the following existing entry :

8080

with :

8443

3.Change the http URL in WSDL files
Go to the folder C:\Program Files (x86)\SAP BusinessObjects\Tomcat6\webapps\dswsbobje
Search for all files *.wsdl
In each file, replace http://localhost:8080…
with https://localhost:8443…

4.Restart the application server (ie tomcat)

Looking for suggestions…
Thanks

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Nicolas Hadj-Blaha (BOB member since 2005-03-10)

[system]

We experienced it in SP6 (moved from SP4 to SP6). Did you resolve this yet?

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alexks (BOB member since 2008-03-25)

[system]

Hi All,

We have just tried upgrade from BO4 SP4 to SP7 on UNIX and default Tomcat.
Got stuck with the same problem.
ADAPT01634294 fix does not work

Best regards,
Mike

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mike_k (BOB member since 2006-08-18)

[system]

All,

Seems like I got the solution.
It is a variation of http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1927235

1. stop tomcat and BO services

For both files:
/tomcat/webapps/dswsbobje/WEB-INF/conf/axis2.xml
/tomcat/webapps/BusinessProcessBI/WEB-INF/conf/axis2.xml
ensure that you have the following code for transportReceiver in

section.

Both HTTP and HTTPS should be there, and should not be commeted out
(the SAP article suggests to replace the

8080 8443

I have noticed that it is extremely easy to leave there some obsolete closing “/” or make other mistakes

3. do not change the *.wsdl files in tomcat\webapps\dswsbobje
   as oposite to indication from http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1927235.

4. Clean all the content of the tomcat/work/* folder

5. start BO services

6. start tomcat

Weird but works

Hope it helps.

Regards,
Mike

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mike_k (BOB member since 2006-08-18)