Creating keystore file from Private key and Certificate file

There will some rare case you may need to generate keystore from Private Key file associated with Certificate file in PEM format. Scenario is moving a website from Apache to Java application server.

My requirement is , client gave PEM file to generate keystore file to configure SSL for Glassfish server.

Solution : Here are the two steps to adopt.

a. Convert PEM files to pkcs12.
We can create keystore file only from pkcs12 file. Here is the command to convert.

.

Note : Glassfish requires that Alias(s1as) name to be set. It will ask you a pass-phase while doing it. So you should set it to “changeit” for Glassfish server. Otherwise it will not work.

b. Convert pkcs12 file to keystore file.

keystore.p12 is the file you created from PEM file
keystore.jks is the keystore file generated for glassfish. Just replace it under the domain config folder to integrate the application.