Spring Boot application in eclipse, the Tomcat connector configured to listen on port XXXX failed to start

Question

I\'m developing a REST API using Spring Framework.

First I wasn\'t able to run my application because of the same problem. The port 8080 on my computer is busy. Then I

Answer 1

In case your app is run on httpS, make sure you put right values under the following properties:

server.ssl.key-store-password=
server.ssl.key-alias=

I got the same error when I put the wrong values here