How to enable JavaScript in your Chrome browser for localhost

 

Google Chrome

1. On the web browser menu click on the "Customize and control Google Chrome" and select "Settings".
2. In the "Settings" section click on the "Show advanced settings..."
3. Under the the "Privacy" click on the "Content settings...".
4. When the dialog window opens, look for the "JavaScript" section and select "Allow all sites to run JavaScript (recommended)".
5. Click on the "OK" button to close it.
6. Close the "Settings" tab.
7. Click on the "Reload this page" button of the web browser to refresh the page.

Enable SSL Https in Tomcat

1. Generate Keystore

First, uses “keytool” command to create a self-signed certificate. During the keystore creation process, you need to assign a password and fill in the certificate’s detail.

$Tomcat\bin>keytool -genkey -alias mkyong -keyalg RSA -keystore c:\mkyongkeystore
Enter keystore password:
Re-enter new password:
What is your first and last name?
  [Unknown]:  yong mook kim
What is the name of your organizational unit?
  //omitted to save space
  [no]:  yes
 
Enter key password for <mkyong>
        (RETURN if same as keystore password):
Re-enter new password:
 
$Tomcat\bin>

Here, you just created a certificate named “mkyongkeystore“, which locate at “c:\“.

Certificate Details
You can use same “keytool” command to list the existing certificate’s detail

$Tomcat\bin>keytool -list -keystore c:\mkyongkeystore
Enter keystore password:
 
Keystore type: JKS
Keystore provider: SUN
 
Your keystore contains 1 entry
 
mkyong, 14 Disember 2010, PrivateKeyEntry,
Certificate fingerprint (MD5): C8:DD:A1:AF:9F:55:A0:7F:6E:98:10:DE:8C:63:1B:A5
 
$Tomcat\bin>

2. Connector in server.xml

Next, locate your Tomcat’s server configuration file at $Tomcat\conf\server.xml, modify it by adding a connector element to support for SSL or https connection.
File : $Tomcat\conf\server.xml

 //...
 <!-- Define a SSL HTTP/1.1 Connector on port 8443
         This connector uses the JSSE configuration, when using APR, the 
         connector should be using the OpenSSL style configuration
         described in the APR documentation -->
 
 <Connector port="8443" protocol="HTTP/1.1" SSLEnabled="true"
               maxThreads="150" scheme="https" secure="true"
               clientAuth="false" sslProtocol="TLS" 
        keystoreFile="c:\mkyongkeystore"
        keystorePass="password" />
  //...

Note
keystorePass="password" is the password you assigned to your keystore via “keytool” command.

 

 

3. Done

Saved it and restart Tomcat, access to https://localhost:8443/

In this example, we are using Google Chrome to access the Tomcat configured SSL site, and you may notice a crossed icon appear before the https protocol :), this is caused by the self-signed certificate and Google chrome just do not trust it.
In production environment, you should consider buy a signed certificate from trusted SSL service provider like verisign/digicert or sign it with your own CA server