Setting Up SSL on Tomcat in 5 minutes (https://localhost:8443)

This tutorial will walk you through how to configure SSL (https://localhost:8443 access) on Tomcat in 5 minutes.

For this tutorial you will need:

Java SDK (used version 6 for this tutorial) Tomcat (used version 7 for this tutorial)

The set up consists in 3 basic steps:

Create a keystore file using Java Configure Tomcat to use the keystore Test it (Bonus ) Configure… AKPC_IDS += "993,";