Hello James, Thanks for the info below, much appreciated
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 9:31 PM, James Lampert <jam...@touchtonecorp.com>wrote: > Victoria Johnson - Kio wrote: > > The text on Apache is really confusing me about setting up SSL on > Tomcat, > >> what do I do with this command >> >> %JAVA_HOME%\bin\keytool -genkey -alias tomcat -keyalg RSA >> > > Well, first you need to be sure you're NOT running this on an AS/400. For > some reason, Keytool is broken under OS/400. > > At any rate, you need to find out where Java is on the computer you're > using, and put it into your executable path. > > Then you call the Keytool command: > > keytool -genkey -keystore <whatever you want to call your keystore> -alias > <whatever alias you wish to use> -keyalg RSA [-keysize <keylength>] > > or for a more concrete example, > > -genkey -keystore foo.ks -alias bar -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 > > You will be prompted for a password; the default for Tomcat is "changeit"; > you should probably give it this password unless you have a reason to do > otherwise. > > You will be prompted for a "first and last name." DON'T give it that. Give > it the URL of your website, e.g., "www.foobar.com" so that people don't > get "certificate is for the wrong domain" warnings in their browsers. > > You will be prompted for the particulars of who you are and where you are. > These are important if you plan on having it signed by a CA, so that people > don't get "self-signed certificate" warnings in their browsers. > > Once you have a keystore, you can hook it to your Tomcat server by editing > the server.xml file. > > -- > JHHL > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > users-unsubscribe@tomcat.**apache.org<users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > -- Victoria Captain Johnson-Kio BS81EA +44(0)7936297429 Here's my professional profile <http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/victoria-captain-johnson-kio/19/9a5/70%20>on LinkedIn Personal Impact <http://twitter.com/#%21/VictoriaKio> on Twitter, and some fun <http://www.facebook.com/kio.victoria> things I do at facebook
