Create a Self Signed Certificate for Jira

Question

Hello everyone,

So i have Jira installed on an AWS EC2 instance, and i want to use it on HTTPS, but i dont want to use the certificate of a CA i need to create and sign my own root CA and server certificates for security purposes.

Are there any guides or tutorials out there that can me in this situation?

Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated!

DPKJ · Answer

Sure @Ghaith Haddad

I am happy to help without secrets :-)  If you like you can upvote/like/accept answer.

Ghaith Haddad · Answer

Thank you DPKJ i ll try the second option because as i mentioned above, we need to create self signed certificates due to security purposes and i can't get into the details as to why because thats organization secrets. ^_^

DPKJ · Answer

If you are on AWS EC2 why don't you generate Amazons Certificate, it will free for all Amazon services and works everywhere.

Here is guide - https://aws.amazon.com/certificate-manager/

On self signed certificates and using them with Jira, you can follow this Apache Tomcat server ssl guide (as Jira uses tomcat server to run itself)

https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.0-doc/ssl-howto.html