Setup SSL (self signed cert) with tomcat
- by Danny
I am mostly following this page:
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/ssl-howto.html
I used this command to create the keystore
keytool -genkey -alias tomcat -keyalg RSA -keystore /etc/tomcat6/keystore
and answered the prompts
Then i edited my server.xml file and uncommented/edited this line
<Connector port="8443" protocol="HTTP/1.1" SSLEnabled="true"
maxThreads="150" scheme="https" secure="true"
clientAuth="false" sslProtocol="TLS"
keystoreFile="/etc/tomcat6/keystore"
keystorePass="tomcat" />
then I go to the web.xml file for my project and add this into the file
<security-constraint>
<web-resource-collection>
<web-resource-name>Security</web-resource-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</web-resource-collection>
<user-data-constraint>
<transport-guarantee>CONFIDENTIAL</transport-guarantee>
</user-data-constraint>
</security-constraint>
When I try to run my webapp I am met with this:
Unable to connect
Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at localhost:8443.
* The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few
moments.
* If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network
connection.
If I comment out the lines I've added to my web.xml file, the webapp works fine. My log file in /var/lib/tomcat6/logs says nothing. I can't figure out if this is a problem with my keystore file, my server.xml file or my web.xml file.... Any assistance is appreciated
I am using tomcat 6 on ubuntu.
