Configure SSL on Windows/Linux environment CQ5/AEM

I was recently asked to work on https on my local environment of AEM. Since I am using windows, I had a little bit of trouble configuring SSL.

I was following this article http://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/cq/5-6-1/deploying/config-ssl.html to configure SSL over the developer environment. Please see that since it is just a dev environment you don’t need a trust store hence only follow the steps for the developer environment.

The only problem was the parameter below

org.apache.felix.https.keystore

String

[quickstart_dir]/ssl/cqkeystore.keystore

Now, this parameter uses an absolute path and not relative. So my windows settings were akin to below. The ssl directory was placed alongside the crx-quickstart and the jar file.  It is very easy to configure SSL. For Linux the path can changes to /opt/abc/ssl/cqkeystore.keystore

org.apache.felix.https.keystore

String

C:/cq/ssl/cqkeystore.keystore

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