Tomcat 6, SSL https doesn't respond

[techieMoe]

I have a bit of a problem at work. We have some applications running on a Tomcat 6.0.18 server, and we were recently asked to implement SSL on that server. I followed all the relevant documentation found on the Apache site and several people's blogs including generating a key, generating a CSR, sending off the CSR to a key verification company (we use Thawte), taking the resultant file and importing into the key, then moving the key to a spot in the Apache directory I can access easily. I then edited my server.xml to handle requests to port 8443.

Pretty much all the tutorials I've tried are identical, and all is well until I get to this step:

Test the SSL connection by replacing http: with https: and attempt to connect to localhost. All should work fine.

Except that on my server, it doesn't. I've checked my server.xml file and the connection that I added matches theirs in the example verbatim (minus the key name and password of course).

If I enter the address certain ways, it simply redirects to regular insecure http/8080. If I enter it with an s and port 8443 I get a long response time and then an error in the browser. If I give it an s and no port number I get a domain not found error.

http://www.mywebsite.com/ - Works fine
https://www.mywebsite.com/ - Domain not found
https://www.mywebsite.com:8443/ - LONG response time, then a nonspecific error
http://www.mywebsite.com:8443/ - redirects to regular http, port 8080.

Is there something obvious I'm missing here?

[davidanand]

There are 2 things to check
1. the connector of 8443 and socket
2. check the port is open

[Roberto326]

I'm having the exact same problem with the exact same configuration:
Ubuntu
Tomcat 6
SSL Certificate from Thawte

Have you figured out what was going on?

Thanks,
Robert