https

if we want to setup a site in https://localhost:8643

setup a website in
/var/lib/tomcat5/webapps

then in the /etc/tomcat5
gedit server.xml

generate a line in server.xml;
  <Connector port="8643" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192"
               maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" maxSpareThreads="75"
               enableLookups="false" disableUploadTimeout="true"
               acceptCount="100" scheme="https" secure="true"
               clientAuth="false" sslProtocol="TLS" />

restart the tomcat5

service tomcat5 restart

at this time, if we open
https://localhost:8643
we can not open a website

in the home of root:
root@raid932client ~]# $JAVA_HOME/bin/keytool -genkey -alias tomcat -keyalg RSA -validity 3650 -keysize 2048

generate a .keystore in the $HOME directory.

then we will be able to open
https://localhost:8643