SSL Tomcat Configuration

Question

I am using tomcat 5.5 and configured keystore and added this connector inside server.xml file

<Connector port="443" minProcessors="5" maxProcessors="75"
       enableLookups="true" disableUploadTimeout="true"
       acceptCount="100" debug="0" scheme="https" secure="true";
       clientAuth="false" sslProtocol="TLS"/>

But I am not sure why when I type in https://locahost the browser tells me "This program cannot display the webpage".

Answer 1

Did you check Tomcat's logs?

• Perhaps the connector could not start up.
• Perhaps Tomcat could not read or find the .keystore you configured.
• Perhaps the .keystore has a password which Tomcat does not know about.
• Perhaps another process is already bound to that port.

The logs will probably tell you exactly which of these is going on.

Answer 2

Possibly you have your browser configured to use a web proxy. In this case, make sure that localhost and 127.0.0.1 are exceptions to using this proxy under the browser's preferences or options. ALSO make sure that localhost is mapped to 127.0.0.1 in your /etc/hosts file. Which in windows is under \WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts.