When you purchase a certificate, install it on the Apache Tomcat server by following the instructions from your certificate vendor. If problems occur when you install the certificate, contact the certificate vendor. Then modify the server.xml file as described in this topic.
To generate your own certificate for testing purposes, you can create and manage a keystore by using the Java™ keytool utility. See Generating keystores and certificates for Rational DOORS Web Access. In addition to that utility, you can use other resources on the Internet to create a certificate and install it on the Tomcat server.
Before you change the configuration, you must stop the Rational DOORS Web Access server. See the procedures for shutting down the server in Starting, stopping, and removing Rational DOORS Web Access.
Before you update your configuration files, back them up.
After you have the keystore, follow this procedure to configure the Tomcat server that comes with Rational DOORS Web Access to use HTTPS with the keystore. Then, reconfigure Rational DOORS Web Access to use HTTPS.
<Connector URIEncoding="UTF-8"
clientAuth="false"
port="8443"
scheme="https"
minSpareThreads="5"
enableLookups="true"
acceptCount="100"
maxThreads="200"
secure="true"
SSLEnabled="true"
keystoreFile="localhost.keystore"
keystorePass="doorsdwa"
sslProtocol="TLS"
algorithm="IbmX509"
compression="on"
noCompressionUserAgents="gozilla, traviata"
compressableMimeType="text/html,text/xml,text/css,text/plain,text/javascript,application/javascript,application/x-javascript"
/>
The following list presents important tasks; for more HTTP Connector options, see the Apache
Tomcat documentation.