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[Rafal Niznik]

Hi All

Confluence is new to me but currently I want to setup SSL 

I follow all instruction I found but still have some issues running over SSL

Can anyone advice and provide basic step-by-step guide?

I'm runnning confluence under Debian box

Regards

Raf

[noamdah · Accepted solution]

Run on application server:

openssl genrsa -out confKey.key 2048 -sha256

openssl req -new -key confKey.key -out confReq.csr

Send confReq.csr to CA

Take caReply.cer to server

openssl pkcs12 -export -out key.pfx -inkey confKey.key -in caReply.cer

keytool -importkeystore -srckeystore key.pfx -srcstoretype pkcs12 -destkeystore myKey.jks -deststoretype JKS

On server.xml file:

<Connector port="8443" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192"
maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25"
protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol"
enableLookups="false" disableUploadTimeout="true"
acceptCount="100" scheme="https" secure="true"
clientAuth="false" sslProtocols="TLSv1,TLSv1.1,TLSv1.2" sslEnabledProtocols="TLSv1,TLSv1.1,TLSv1.2" SSLEnabled="true"
URIEncoding="UTF-8" keystorePass="changeit" keystoreFile="/path/to/myKey.jks"/>

Restart confluence

Change base url

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

You'll need to decide on what route you want to take first.  You can either try to run Confluence's Tomcat with SSL, or take the recommended route of setting up a simple reverse proxy that handles all the SSL stuff.  (There are other routes, but these are more than a little unusual, and I'm only really familiar with the 97% of cases that go with a proxy).

Do you have a preference?  If so, and it's a proxy, which web server would you choose as the proxy?  (Nginx, Apache, Lighttpd etc)

[Rafal Niznik]

currently I use Sophos XG firewall that has option to protect webservers but not really sure hot to set this up

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

That's nothing to do with SSL or proxies.  Although you may have to configure it to allow traffic on the port you want to run on.