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victoria277
victoria277

Reputation: 67

Generating functional Keystore Tomcat 7.0, Windows 7

I have read many of the previous post regarding this on stack overflow and I still can't figure this out.

I installed Tomcat 7.0 on Windows 7, with an installer, and would like to change port 8443

to 443, but before doing that I understood from my previous question on this forum that I

need to set up a certificate to get port 8443 working before thinking of changing it to

port 443.

This step by step guide http://www.mulesoft.com/tomcat-ssl should be adequate but I am

really confused about this %JAVA_HOME%\bin\keytool -genkey -alias tomcat -keyalg RSA do I

need to type this into "cmd" when I did it says "the system cannot find the path", so I

tried with

%JAVA_HOME%\bin\keytool -genkey -alias tomcat -keyalg RSA \ -keystore /path/to/my/keystore(Windows)

%JAVA_HOME%\bin\keytool -genkey -alias tomcat -keyalg RSA \ -keystore /Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Tomcat 7.0/conf

Still no luck.

I have java 1.7 64bit on my PC

This is really my first time configuring Tomcat, thanks for understanding

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1969

Answers (1)

victoria277
victoria277

Reputation: 67

This answer provided is one in the many questions that might arise when configuring Tomcat 7's server.xml file.

The answer is specific to using Windows 7, JDK 1.7, 64bit

In order to successfully generate a Keystore find the path to your JDK's keytool this is found in your Java's bin folder, get to that point through the terminal, and then type in

\keytool -genkey -alias -keyalg RSA -keystore C:\MyCert.cert

C:\MyCert.cert is an example you may wish to store your certificate else where in your hard

hit enter and proceed

Upvotes: 1

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