I use jsvc started by root that forks to a process owned by tomcat user. The
server runs on port 80 and 443. Using jsvc works fine with apr for http (port
80), but for https (port 443) it doesn't. Either it takes ages to run (as stated
by more than one user on tomcat-users as we may see below) or it simply freezes:

http://www.nabble.com/Http11AprProtocol-took-2-hr-to-init-on-http-443-tf1810268.html#a4950939

If we run http with apr protocol, but https as basic protocol, as suggested
above, it works perfectly.

When using jsvc, we have a warning for the JDK, due to some permission problem:

Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM warning: Can't detect initial thread stack location -
 find_vma failed

And this seems to be a jsvc bug related to the lack of permission by the
non-admin user (in my case, tomcat), as we can see here:

http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38633

For jvsc without apr, everything works fine. The same for apr without jvsc
(running as root user). But SSL simply does not work for me when both are used.

Running "kill -3 pid" for the tomcat process returns the following stack trace:

"main" prio=1 tid=0x08bc6f78 nid=0x966 runnable [0xbf8d4000..0xbf8d4e48]
        at org.apache.tomcat.jni.SSL.initialize(Native Method)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AprEndpoint.init(AprEndpoint.java:628)
        at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProtocol.init(Http11AprProtocol.jav
a:115)
        at org.apache.catalina.connector.Connector.initialize(Connector.java:101
6)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.initialize(StandardService.j
ava:580)
        - locked <0x891e1ce8> (a [Lorg.apache.catalina.connector.Connector;)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.initialize(StandardServer.jav
a:791)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:503)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.
java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAcces
sorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.load(Bootstrap.java:266)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:281)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.
java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAcces
sorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
        at org.apache.commons.daemon.support.DaemonLoader.load(DaemonLoader.java
:160)

Please tell me if you need further information.