I had this issue when working on a Java Project in Debian 10 with Tomcat as the application server.
The issue was that the application already had https defined as it's default protocol while I was using http to call the application in the browser.
I however tried using the https protocol in the browser but it didn't connect throwing the error:
Secure Connection Failed
An error occurred during a connection to 34.72.188.50:8009. SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length.
Error code: SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG
The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.
Here's how I solved it:
I first had to create a keystore file for the application, more like a self-signed certificate for the https protocol:
sudo keytool -genkey -keyalg RSA -alias tomcat -keystore /usr/share/tomcat.keystore
Note: You need to have Java installed on the server to be able to do this. Java can be installed using sudo apt install default-jdk.
Next, I added a https Tomcat server connector for the application in the Tomcat server configuration file (/opt/tomcat/conf/server.xml):
sudo nano /opt/tomcat/conf/server.xml
Add the following to the configuration of the application. Notice that the keystore file location and password are specified. Also a port for the https protocol is defined, which is different from the port for the http protocol:
<Connector protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol"
port="8443" maxThreads="200" scheme="https"
secure="true" SSLEnabled="true"
keystoreFile="/usr/share/tomcat.keystore"
keystorePass="my-password"
clientAuth="false" sslProtocol="TLS"
URIEncoding="UTF-8"
compression="force"
compressableMimeType="text/html,text/xml,text/plain,text/javascript,text/css"/>
So the full server configuration for the application looked liked this in the Tomcat server configuration file (/opt/tomcat/conf/server.xml):
<Service name="my-application">
<Connector protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol"
port="8443" maxThreads="200" scheme="https"
secure="true" SSLEnabled="true"
keystoreFile="/usr/share/tomcat.keystore"
keystorePass="my-password"
clientAuth="false" sslProtocol="TLS"
URIEncoding="UTF-8"
compression="force"
compressableMimeType="text/html,text/xml,text/plain,text/javascript,text/css"/>
<Connector port="8009" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
connectionTimeout="20000"
redirectPort="8443" />
<Engine name="my-application" defaultHost="localhost">
<Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.LockOutRealm">
<Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.UserDatabaseRealm"
resourceName="UserDatabase"/>
</Realm>
<Host name="localhost" appBase="webapps"
unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true">
<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" directory="logs"
prefix="localhost_access_log" suffix=".txt"
pattern="%h %l %u %t "%r" %s %b" />
</Host>
</Engine>
</Service>
This time when I tried accessing the application from the browser using:
https://my-server-ip-address:https-port
In my case it was:
https:35.123.45.6:8443
it worked fine. Although, I had to accept a warning which added a security exception for the website, since the certificate used is a self-signed one.
That's all.
I hope this helps