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The default values apply if the respective property is missing from the configuration or if no configuration is provided at all.

Configuration of the OSGi Http Service

As said above, the configuration of the OSGi Http Service used by the Web Console to register itself is outside of the scope of the Web Console. Lets just say, the OSGi Http Service specification defines a system propety – org.osgi.service.http.port – which may be set to define the port at which the Http Service should listen for HTTP requests. The respective Http Service implementation may define additional properties to define the actual interface on which to listen or to define a servlet context path.

By default it is probably safe to assume, that having set the org.osgi.service.http.port to a defined value, the Http Service implementation will listen on all interfaces for requests at the set port number and that no servlet context path actually exists. For example, given the org.osgi.service.http.port property is set to 8888 the Web Console in the local system can be reached at : http://localhost:8888/system/consoleImage Added, where the /system/console path is configured using the manager.root configuration property (see the Configuration section).

If you happen to deploy an OSGi framework instance inside a traditional web application and thus the Http Service implementation is actually a bridge into the existing servlet container (see for example Equinox in a Servlet Container or the Apache Sling Launchpad Web application), the host, port and context path are defined by your servlet container and web application deployment. For example, if the servlet container listens on host sample.org at port 8888 and the web application with your OSGi container is available in the /osgi context, the Web Console would be accessible at http\://sample.org:8888/osgi/system/console.

Security

The Web Console only has very basic security at the moment supporting only HTTP Basic authentication. This security is enabled by default and may be disabled by simply clearing the username property.

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