Well it would appear that after the appropriate number of restarts it works! Not sure what I did wrong, I must not have saved the server.xml file or something... Also this server is a vmware image so maybe it is something to do with the load on the host OS? Anyway I will continue to monitor the situation. Thanks for your help PeterJ!!! For the record here are the settings that are working for me | <Connector port="8080" address="${jboss.bind.address}" | maxThreads="250" maxHttpHeaderSize="16384" | emptySessionPath="true" protocol="HTTP/1.1" | enableLookups="false" redirectPort="8443" acceptCount="100" | maxPostSize="10240" | bufferSize="10240" | socketBuffer="10240" | connectionTimeout="240000" disableUploadTimeout="true" /> | | <!-- Define a SSL HTTP/1.1 Connector on port 8443 | This connector uses the JSSE configuration, when using APR, the | connector should be using the OpenSSL style configuration | described in the APR documentation --> | | <Connector port="8443" protocol="HTTP/1.1" SSLEnabled="true" | maxThreads="150" scheme="https" secure="true" | clientAuth="false" sslProtocol="TLS" | connectionTimeout="240000" | maxPostSize="10240" | bufferSize="10240" | socketBuffer="10240" | maxSavePostSize="10240" | maxHttpHeaderSize="16384" | disableUploadTimeout="true" | keystoreFile="${jboss.server.home.dir}/conf/.keystore" | keystorePass="fact0ring" /> | | | <!-- Define an AJP 1.3 Connector on port 8009 --> | <Connector port="8009" address="${jboss.bind.address}" protocol="AJP/1.3" | emptySessionPath="true" enableLookups="false" redirectPort="8443" /> | View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4223155#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...