SSL Configuration on Maven Tomcat Plugin

Question

I am trying to develop a Wicket app. It's login page must open with SSL. So I did some coding. But I can't find to configure the maven tomcat 7 plugin for SSL. I created keystore file properly.Using keytool -genkey -alias tomcat -keyalg RSA command It's in the in user directory on windows.It's password is password.

This is how I defined tomcat in pom.xml:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
    <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.0-beta-1</version>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <id>tomcat-run</id>
            <goals>
                <goal>exec-war-only</goal>
            </goals>
            <phase>package</phase>
            <configuration>
                <path>foo</path>
                <!-- optional only if you want to use a preconfigured server.xml file -->
                <serverXml>src/main/tomcatconf/server.xml</serverXml>
                <!-- optional values which can be configurable -->
                <attachArtifactClassifier>
                                    default value is exec-war but you can   customize
                                </attachArtifactClassifier>
                <attachArtifactClassifierType>
                                      default value is jar
                                </attachArtifactClassifierType>
                <httpsPort>8443</httpsPort>
                <keystoreFile>${user.home}/.keystore</keystoreFile>
                <keystorePass>password</keystorePass>
                <protocol>org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProtocol</protocol>
            </configuration>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>

Acyclic

did you find the correct configuration? I am trying to do something similar without success. – Sacha

Answer 1

With this configuration in my pom.xml I get it working:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
    <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.0</version>
    <configuration>
        <path>/${project.build.finalName}</path>
        <contextFile>${basedir}/context.xml</contextFile>
        <httpsPort>8443</httpsPort>
        <keystoreFile>${basedir}/certificates/keystore.jks</keystoreFile>
        <keystorePass>password</keystorePass>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

Meridithmeriel

Thanks for your answer! When I test it, I will post the result – Acyclic

Works for me. I added automatic ssl key generation – Tippet

I'll add a common gotcha here in that you need to run tomcat7:run note the tomcat7. – Betrothed

Answer 2

I was able to get it working with:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
    <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.0</version>
    <configuration>
        <path>/mycontext</path>
        <port>9090</port>
        <httpsPort>8443</httpsPort>
        <keystorePass>changeit</keystorePass>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

Be sure you create the keystore from the documentation: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/ssl-howto.html (it looks like you have that part) and what finally worked for me was to create the keystore (in the default directory) with both passwords as "changeit"... not sure why, but for me this is ok in this case as this is for local development only.

I am running on Windows 7, Maven 3.

Hope this helps.

Cormorant

Thanks for your answer! When I test it, I will post the result – Acyclic