How to run Bitbucket Server over HTTPS with a Personal Information Exchange (PFX) keystore
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Description
Certificates with the extension .pfx or .p12 usually use PKCS12 as encryption mechanism and this type of certificate is possible to be used in Tomcat without any conversion.
ℹ️ Usually certificates generated by Microsoft's Certification Authority console use PKCS12.
Diagnosis
You can check the Keystore type of your certificate using the following keytool command "keytool -list -keystore path_to_certificate.pfx -storetype PKCS12" and in case it's indeed PKCS12 you'll see the following output:
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$ keytool -list -keystore cert.pfx -storetype PKCS12
Enter keystore password:
Keystore type: PKCS12
Keystore provider: SunJSSE
Your keystore contains 1 entryResolution
Shutdown Bitbucket Server
Bitbucket Server 5.0+
Adjust the connector properties in
bitbucket.propertiesas described in Secure Bitbucket with Tomcat using SSL. To set the keystore type, set the following:1server.ssl.key-store-type=PKCS12
Bitbucket Server 4.14 and below
Adjust your SSL connector into the
server.xmlfile. This is an example of SSL connector using keystoreType="PKCS12":1 2 3 4 5 6 7<Connector port="443" protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192" SSLEnabled="true" maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" maxSpareThreads="75" enableLookups="false" disableUploadTimeout="true" acceptCount="100" scheme="https" secure="true" keystoreFile="C:\path_to_cert\certificate.pfx" keystorePass="certificate_password" keyAlias="1" keystoreType="PKCS12" clientAuth="false" connectionTimeout="20000" sslProtocol="TLS" useBodyEncodingForURI="true"/>
Restart Bitbucket Server.
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