How to run Stash over HTTPS with a Personal Information Exchange (PFX) keystore
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Description
Certificates with the extension .pfx or .p12 usually use PKCS12 as encryption mechanism and this type of certificate is possible to be used in Tomcat without any conversion.
Usually certificates generated by Microsoft's Certification Authority console use PKCS12.
Diagnosis
You can check the Keystore type of your certificate using the following keytool command "keytool -list -keystore path_to_certificate.pfx -storetype PKCS12" and in case it's indeed PKCS12 you'll see the following output:
$ keytool -list -keystore cert.pfx -storetype PKCS12
Enter keystore password:
Keystore type: PKCS12
Keystore provider: SunJSSE
Your keystore contains 1 entryResolution
- Shutdown Stash
Adjust your SSL connector into the
server.xmlfile. This is an example of SSL connector using keystoreType="PKCS12":<Connector port="443" protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192" SSLEnabled="true" maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" maxSpareThreads="75" enableLookups="false" disableUploadTimeout="true" acceptCount="100" scheme="https" secure="true" keystoreFile="C:\path_to_cert\certificate.pfx" keystorePass="certificate_password" keyAlias="1" keystoreType="PKCS12" clientAuth="false" connectionTimeout="20000" sslProtocol="TLS" useBodyEncodingForURI="true"/>Restart Stash.