If you visit my blog reguarly, you would noticed that my blog was downed last week on May 3-10. Let me tell in chronological style.

• On April 29, I have just realized that my account would expired on May 1 but I don’t want to renew the account because current hosting provider allows only a domain per account. And now I have more than a domain to manage so I have to move my blog to other hosting provider.
• On April 30, I ask support team of the current hosting provider to expand my account for a few days to complete transfer my data to Hostgator which is the new hosting provider that I’ll move to. They agree and enable my blog till May 4.
• On May 1, I backup and restore data to Hostgator. Now the hosting problem had been fixed.
• On May 2, I want to transfer domain registrar from my current registrar (OnlineNic) to other domain registrar (Netfirms) for management issue. Again, I ask support team for the code using to initiate the transfer.
• On May 3, I have received an e-mail from support team about the code. Then, I initiate the domain transfer.
• On May 4, I have received an e-mail from OnlineNic. It’s look like an automated system. They tell me that I have to wait 5 days and OnlineNic will transfer the domain. That’s means the transfer will begin on May 8 and my blog will be offline tomorrow until May 8. I decide to wait so that why my blog is downed about a week.
• On May 5-7, I take this change to upgrade and patch my blog and plugins to the latest version.
• On May 8, the domain registrar is transferred succesfully.
• On May 10, I point DNS server of linglom.com to Hostgator’s DNS server and put the blog online.

I have use Hostgator for 4 months now (hosting other website) and never face any problem. If you’re looking for a good place to hosting your web with economy price, I would recommend this one.

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This tutorial shows how to enable SSL support for Apache Tomcat web server.

Requirement

• Apache Tomcat 5.0
• JDK 1.5

Note: if you have JDK below 1.4, you need to install Java Secure Socket Extensions (JSSE)

Step-by-step

1. Create .ketstore file
• Enter command line and change directory to your JAVA\bin folder. (Default path is: C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_12\bin)
• Type “keytool –genkey –alias tomcat –keyalg RSA and press Enter.
  Where tomcat is an alias name and RSA is a key algorithm.
• Type your password for the keystore. (Default password is: changeit). In this example, I’ll use password as “password�?.
• Enter general information about this Certificate. The example is the image below. In the last line, Enter key password for (tomcat) should be the same as you enter before.
  Note that this information will be displayed to users who attempt to access a secure page.
  
• The file .keystore will be created on your account. (Currently, I use administrator account so it’ll be in C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator)
  
2. Configure Tomcat
• Open server.xml in Tomcat\conf folder. (Default path is: C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 5.5\conf)
• Uncomment the paragraph below this line
  <!-- Define a SSL HTTP/1.1 Connector on port 8443 -->.<br /> (By removing <!-- and --> tags below the line)
• Add new attribute keystorePass=”password” to the Connector element. If you haven’t change keystore’s password, you don’t have to add this attribute.
  
• Change port to 443 if you want to access a page from https:// without specifies port after hostname.
  
• Save and restart Apache Tomcat service.
3. Test the result
• Open browser and navigate to the Apache Tomcat server with https:// prefix
  
• There will be a pop-up window show about security alert, click Yes.
  
• When you see Apache Tomcat’s default page, that’s means you have success enable SSL on the server. Congratulate.
• Also, you will notice there is a key icon on the bottom right of your browser.
  
• Try double click on the key to view certificate’s detail.
  

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