Spring boot after https: The Tomcat connector configured to listen on port 8444 failed to start.

Question

I followed a guide to enable https in Spring Boot. The application was beforehand working on https://localhost:8080

I\'ve created a keystore.jks which is in

Answer 1

From Spring Boot 2.0 and higher, you can ignore this property.

security.require-ssl=true

To enable SSL, use the below configuration in your application.properties

The format used for the keystore

server.ssl.key-store-type=JKS

The path to the keystore containing the certificate

server.ssl.key-store=classpath:somecert.jks

The password used to generate the certificate

server.ssl.key-store-password=password

The alias mapped to the certificate

server.ssl.key-alias=alias_name

Note : server.ssl.key-store refers to the keystore location. Use classpath prefix, if it is present in src/main/resources. Otherwise use, file:/some/location.