On 23/01/2017 09:36, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> With the fast adoption of Let's Encrypt many people are interested in
> integrating it with Tomcat. A first step was to ensure that Tomcat can
> directly use the PEM certificates generated by the letsencrypt/certbot
> client. An important aspect of Let's Encrypt is automation, the
> certificates are relatively short lived (90 days) and must be updated
> automatically. AFAIK there is no easy way yet to reload a connector in
> Tomcat to pick a new certificate. The administrator either has to
> restart Tomcat (bad in a production environment) or do some JMX tricks
> [1] (but JMX must be enabled and secured properly).
> 
> I'm wondering if it would be possible for Tomcat to monitor the
> certificates/keystore files and reload the associated connectors
> automatically? If there is a consensus on this feature I'd be interested
> in implementing it.

For background reading:

http://tomcat.markmail.org/thread/fthbtwuozidno6lw

http://tomcat.markmail.org/thread/753blzkslmifcvh4

Mark


> 
> Emmanuel Bourg
> 
> [1]
> http://serverfault.com/questions/328533/can-tomcat-reload-its-ssl-certificate-without-being-restarted
> 
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