To use HTTPS URLs, no Spring configuration is required, but you need to enable HTTPS on your server. In this recipe, we'll cover how to do this for Tomcat (on a Mac OS or Linux) using a self-generated SSL certificate. For production, remember to use a real commercial SSL certificate.
Here are the steps to enable HTTPS for Tomcat:
To generate an SSL certificate, open a Terminal and use the
keytool
command to createcertificate.bin
. In this example, the certificate user name isadmin
and the password isadminpass
:keytool -genkey -alias admin -keypass adminpass -keystore certificate.bin -storepass adminpass
Accept the default values, except for the last question whose answer should be
yes
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