How to Generate a CSR Request for Tomcat?

Products

• Clarity PPM SaaS
• Clarity PPM On Premise

Issue/Introduction

Description:

Please follow these steps to generate a CSR request for an SSL certificate.

Solution:

1. Click on Start-->Run and type in CMD.
   
   
2. Type 'CD %Java_Home%\bin <%Java_Home% = Installation directory of Java in your environment>
   
   
3. Type the following command to generate the Key Pair:
   
   "keytool -keysize 2048 -genkey -alias tomcat -keyalg RSA -keystore tomcat.keystore"
   
   
4. When prompted for a password, use default password "changeit" unless you specified a different password during installation.
   
   
5. You will be prompted for the following information:
   
   First and last name: Fully-qualified domain name (FQDN), Host name, or URL - to which you plan to apply your certificate.
   Organizational unit: Use this field to differentiate between divisions within an organization if applicable. If not enter the DBA of the company.
   Organization: The name under which your business is legally registered. The listed organization must be the legal registrant of the domain name in the certificate request.
   City/Locality: Name of the city in which your organization is registered/located.
   State/Province: Name of state or province where your organization is located.
   Country code: The two-letter country code for the country in which your organization is legally registered.
   
   
6. Review that the information is correct and press 'Y'.
   
   
7. To Generate a CSR enter the following command:
   
   keytool -certreq -keyalg RSA -alias tomcat -file Certificate.csr -keystore tomcat.keystore
   
   
8. Enter the keystore password.
   
   
9. The CSR will be created.

Environment

Release:
Component: PPMENV