With this post, We Will install and configure Self Sign SSL with Tomcat 8 uisng ubutnu 16.04/18.04
Generating Keystore
Step 1:- First you need to generate the keystore by following commands with root privileges.
sudo -i
keytool -genkey -alias Your_domain_here -keyalg RSA -keystore /etc/pki/keystore
Adding ssl code in Tomcat’s server.xml
Step 2:- After this, You need to edit /opt/tomcat/conf/server.xml file to add given param to configure ssl
nano /opt/tomcat/conf/server.xml
Paste the given ssl parameter
<Connector port=”8443″ protocol=”HTTP/1.1″
connectionTimeout=”20000″
redirectPort=”443″
SSLEnabled=”true”
scheme=”https”
secure=”true”
sslProtocol=”TLS”
keystoreFile=”/etc/pki/keystore”
keystorePass=”_password_” />
And save and exit from nano editor
Restart the Tomcat service
Step 3:- To get effect of ssl changes, You need to restart the Apache Tomcat services by following the commands
systemctl restart tomcat.service
How to configure SSL in Tomcat8 using ubuntu 16.04