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TLS certificate configuration in Tomcat 9

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Is the PEM-based certificate configuration available for both JSSE-based and APR-based connectors in Tomcat 9 at this point? The documentation says e.g. the "certificateFile" attribute is for "OpenSSL Only", and when I try to launch Tomcat using the NIO connector and a PEM-based certificate file, Tomcat says that the keystore is corrupted (even though no keystore was actually specified).

posted Nov 25, 2015 by Seema Siddique

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No, you really have to use OpenSSL, so either the APR connector, or the NIOx connectors with the OpenSSL implementation. You will get warnings as well if you don't use the appropriate properties for your connector.

answer Nov 25, 2015 by Ankit
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