Tuesday 26 February 2013

How to run tomcat over ssl

 How to run tomcat  over ssl..........


Do the following step
1)Go to the $JAVA_HOME/bin and Create a keystore file(say test.keystore) using the keytool command

keytool -genkey -alias testtomcat -keyalg RSA -keystore /root/nikapps/test.keystore

2)Configure the  server.xml file of tomcat server u r using
 <Connector port="8443" protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol" SSLEnabled="true"
           maxThreads="150"  keystoreFile="/root/nikapps/test.keystore" keystorePass="changeit" scheme="https" secure="true"
               clientAuth="false" sslProtocol="TLS" />

3)start the tomcat server and open the browser type https://localhost:8443