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

I solved the same issue by using the following configuration

# Define a custom port instead of the default 8080
server.port=8443
# Tell Spring Security (if used) to require requests over HTTPS
security.require-ssl=true
# The format used for the keystore 
server.ssl.key-store-type=PKCS12
# The path to the keystore containing the certificate
server.ssl.key-store=src/main/resources/keystore.p12
# The password used to generate the certificate
server.ssl.key-store-password=root0

I removed alias name and it worked perfectly. "You probably won't need a key alias, since there will only be one key entry" referred from TOMCAT SSL Error: Alias name does not identify a key entry