Tomcat services is not starting after enabling SSL - https

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Tomcat services is not starting after enabling SSL.

My application is hosted in one of the server in apache tomcat but in http 8080 port. I want to enable https for my application.

I generated key using the following commannd

"%JAVA_HOME%\bin\keytool" -genkey -alias tomcat -keyalg RSA -keystore C:\Users\app.keystore

and I changed my server.xml connector from

<Connector acceptCount="100"
connectionTimeout="20000"
executor="tomcatThreadPool"
maxKeepAliveRequests="15"
port="${bio.http.port}"
protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol"
redirectPort="${bio.https.port}"/>

to

<Connector
protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol"
port="8443" maxThreads="200"
scheme="https" secure="true" SSLEnabled="true"
keystoreFile="C:\Users\app.keystore" keystorePass="changeit"
clientAuth="false" sslProtocol="TLS"/>

But the services are not starting after changing it.

Appreciate your help. Thanks in advance!

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Ramesh Subramanian Ramesh Subramanian · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-28T07:55:57

Usually key store files are located in the conf folder of tomcat (you can keep it anywhere). Can you add the key store inside the conf folder and change keystoreFile="conf/app.keystore"in the server.xml

Tomcat services is not starting after enabling SSL - https

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