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External Certificate

Acquire certificate

Buy a certificate from a provider. Note that the max lifetime is currently 1 year, så buying a 5 year certificate only help on pricing.

 https://www.ssls.com/

After issuing the files you will have

  • A private key - ex: movia.tempusserva.dk.pfx
  • A certificate - ex: movia_tempusserva_dk_key.txt

Install certificate

1. Upload the files

2. Convert to a pfx file format

openssl pkcs12 -export -out movia.tempusserva.dk.pfx -inkey movia_tempusserva_dk_key.txt -in movia.tempusserva.dk.crt

Write the password down

Check alias if needed

openssl pkcs12 -nokeys -info -in movia.tempusserva.dk.pfx -passin pass:TempusServaFTW!

4. Install in tomcat Add the following code to <tomcat>\conf\server.xml

<Connector port="8443" protocol="HTTP/1.1" SSLEnabled="true" URIEncoding="UTF-8"
   scheme="https" secure="true" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192"
   maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" maxSpareThreads="75"
   enableLookups="false" acceptCount="100" disableUploadTimeout="true"
   keystoreFile="/mnt/sda/certs/movia.tempusserva.dk.pfx" keystorePass="TempusServaFTW!" keystoreType="PKCS12"
   clientAuth="false" sslProtocol="TLS" sslEnabledProtocols="TLSv1.2" 
   ciphers="TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA,
            TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,
            TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,
            TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256,
            TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,
            TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256,
            TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256,
            TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,
            TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,
            TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA256,
            TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384,
            TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384,
            TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384"
   compression="on" compressionMinSize="2048" nocompressionUserAgents="gozilla, traviata"
       compressableMimeType="text/html,text/xml,text/plain,application/xml"
/>

5. Restart the server

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