How to configure SSL in Tomcat8 using ubuntu 16.04

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

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