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Now you have to modify it. Find the Connector element which has port="8443″ ”8443″ and uncomment it if already not done. Add the following lines to the Connector directive,
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You can start Tomcat and check the SSL works by using a browser and going to the url, https://\[Server-IP\]:8443/
Tomcat still runs in normal mode too, i.e on port 8080 with http. Depending on your configuration this may not be desireable for your application. If so, you will want to continue to the next step to configure your web application to only work on 8443.
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Explanation of the fragment is beyond the scope of this tutorial but all you should notice is that the /* indicates that now, any resource in your application can be accessed only with https be it Servlets or JSP'sJSP’s. The term CONFIDENTIAL is the term which tells the server to make the application work on SSL. If you want to turn the SSL mode for this application off then just turn don't don’t delete the fragment. Just put the value as NONE instead of CONFIDENTIAL.
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