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Asked: 2012-11-04 07:28:18 +0800 CST

Activating ssl on tomcat

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I want to encrypt the http traffic on a tomcat instance via ssl. Therefore I followed the most simplistic approach described on various webpages. But anyway it simply does not work. Here is what I did:

  1. "keytool -genkey -alias tomcat -keyalg RSA" and I enterd "changeit" as the password (since this is the defaut chosen by tomcat)

  2. Altering $CATALINA_HOME/conf/servers.xml by uncommenting the following line

    Connector port="8443" protocol="HTTP/1.1" SSLEnabled="true" maxThreads="150" scheme="https" secure="true" clientAuth="false" sslProtocol="TLS"/

  3. Restarting tomcat

Entering 

https://localhost:8443

does not work. However, I can still access the page via normal http like 

http://localhost:8080

The logfile does not contain any suspicious information.

What is going wrong here?

ssl

1 Answers

  1. Have you tried including the keyfile in your connector like

    keystoreFile="/keystorepath/.keystore" keystorePass="password"

    Check this tutorial http://java.dzone.com/articles/setting-ssl-tomcat-5-minutes

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