confluence https problem

[Timothy Harris]

We have been running confluence 5.6.3 over http. Now we find that we have issues with the Office connector when not running over SSL.

I wanted to test this on our sandbox instance, which has no DNS name, I followed the instructions here: https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF56/Running+Confluence+Over+SSL+or+HTTPS

If I enter the URL like this "https://<IP ADDRESS>:8090 I get an SSL connection error: ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR

When I generated the self signed cert I entered the IP Address when asked for "first and last name". 

Could this be the problem?

I generated my keypair/cert like this:

keytool -genkeypair -alias tomcat -keyalg RSA -keystore /var/atlassian/atlassian.keystore
Enter keystore password:
Re-enter new password:
What is your first and last name?
[Unknown]: <REPLACED>:8090
What is the name of your organizational unit?
[Unknown]:
What is the name of your organization?
[Unknown]:
What is the name of your City or Locality?
[Unknown]:
What is the name of your State or Province?
[Unknown]:
What is the two-letter country code for this unit?
[Unknown]:
Is CN=<REPLACED>:8090, OU=Unknown, O=Unknown, L=Unknown, ST=Unknown, C=Unknown correct? (type "yes" or "no")
[no]: yes

Enter key password for <tomcat>:
(RETURN if same as keystore password):

In the above I have replaced my actual IP with "<REPLACED>".

My server.xml looks like this: 

<Connector port="8443" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192"
maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25"
enableLookups="false" disableUploadTimeout="true"
acceptCount="100" scheme="https" secure="true"
clientAuth="false" sslProtocol="TLS" SSLEnabled="true"
URIEncoding="UTF-8" keystorePass="MY_PASSWORD_USED_WHEN_GENERATING_KEYPAIR"
keystoreFile="/var/atlassian/atlassian.keystore"/>

[RVal · Accepted solution]

HTTPS connection goes to port 8443 and not to 8090. In the document you mentioned look at step 4:

Step 4. Change your Confluence Base URL to HTTPS

1. In your browser, go to the Confluence Administration Console.
2. Change the Server Base URL to HTTPS. See the documentation on configuring the server base URL.
3. Restart Tomcat and access Confluence on https://<MY_BASE_URL>:8443/.

Did you try to connect to https://<MY_BASE_URL>:8443 ?

[Timothy Harris]

I re-read the documentation and cam to the same conclusion. Works now. Thanks for the answer!

[Timothy Harris]

P.S. I have also tried generating the keypair/cert based just on the IP maddress without the port number, which is I am sure the correct way to do this. No difference.