Generating a self signed certificate

Added by Dustin Schultz, last edited by Susan Bramhall on Feb 17, 2009  (view change)

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The portal requires the use of SSL. In order to set up your development environment to use SSL, you'll need to generate a SSL certificate.

Generating a self signed SSL certificate for https

JAVA_HOME refers to the location of where Java is installed, usually C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0\ on Windows and /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun on Ubuntu Linux. Default keystore password is: changeit

From a command line, do the following

JAVA_HOME\bin\keytool -delete -alias tomcat
JAVA_HOME\bin\keytool -genkey -alias tomcat -keyalg RSA
JAVA_HOME\bin\keytool -export -alias tomcat -file server.crt
JAVA_HOME\bin\keytool -import -file server.crt -keystore JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security/cacerts

You need to answer the dialogue questions using the host name as the cn. For example:

What is your first and last name?
  [Unknown]:  tpappsrv.its.yale.edu
What is the name of your organizational unit?
  [Unknown]:  Yale University
What is the name of your organization?
  [Unknown]:  ITS
What is the name of your City or Locality?
  [Unknown]:  New Haven
What is the name of your State or Province?
  [Unknown]:  CT
What is the two-letter country code for this unit?
  [Unknown]:  us
Is CN=tpappsrv.its.yale.edu, OU=Yale University, O=ITS, L=New Haven, ST=CT, C=us correct?
  [no]:  yes

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