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Adam,

On 10/9/17 6:13 PM, Adam Pease wrote:
> Hi Chris, Many thanks for the quick response!  There's a lot of new
> terminology (to me) to all this and it's quite confusing I'm
> afraid.
> 
> I tried Let's Encrypt just now but since I'm running Tomcat sites 
> either I'm not doing it right, or it doesn't know how to verify
> domains when they don't answer on port 80.  So I get "The server
> could not connect to the client to verify the domain :: Timeout" 
> Following the process at "gethttpsforfree.com" resulted in two
> long hex keys: one titled "Signed Certificate" and one titled
> "Intermediate Certificate".  I'm not sure what a "server
> certificate" is.  Is that a public/private key pair that I
> generated at the beginning of this process with
> 
> openssl genrsa 4096 > account.key
> 
> or what I did at the beginning of the tomcat instructions
> 
> $JAVA_HOME/bin/keytool -genkey -alias tomcat -keyalg RSA
> 
> But that generates a .keystore file which is already a parameter to
> the failing command.
> 
> I really appreciate your help.

Have a look at this page:
http://tomcat.apache.org/presentations.html

Search for "let's encrypt".

There's a ton of stuff in there that you don't need, but the basics
are in fact there, including (IIRC) every single command you'll need
to execute in order to get yourself a certificate signed, installed,
and running in Tomcat.

- -chris
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