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Turn off HTTP traffic in DPA (Port 8123)

This article describes how to set DPA to only use traffic over HTTPS (8124 by default).

First published date

11/2/2018 8:20 PM

Last published date

11/7/2025 4:42 PM

Overview

In  DPA 2023.2 and later, HTTP traffic is disabled by default, and HTTPS connections are required. Use the following steps to configure earlier versions of DPA to use only HTTPS (8124 by default).

Product section

Database Performance Analyzer

Resolution

  1. Go to <DPAInstallDirectory>\iwc\tomcat\conf\.
  2. Create a backup of the server.xml file.
  3. Comment out the HTTP connector section:
    <!-- HTTP connector
        <Connector port="8123" maxHttpHeaderSize="20480" URIEncoding="UTF-8" compression="on"
                   compressionMinSize="2048" compressableMimeType="text/html,text/xml,text/csv,text/css,text/javascript"
        /> -->
  4. Save the file.
  5. Restart the Ignite PI service.