Launching https on Tomcat Port 8443 - requires the APR/native library which is not available

I need advice on https. Below is the configuration of the server.xml file

<Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
               connectionTimeout="20000"
               maxParameterCount="1000"
               redirectPort="8443" />
    <Connector port="8443" protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProtocol"
               maxThreads="150" SSLEnabled="true" scheme="https" secure="true"
               maxParameterCount="1000"
               <UpgradeProtocol className="org.apache.coyote.http2.Http2Protocol" />
                  <SSLHostConfig>               
                      <Certificate 
                      certificateKeyFile="conf/privateKey.pem"
                      certificateFile="conf/certificateCA.crt"
                      certificateChainFile="conf/certificate.crt"
                      type="RSA" />
                  </SSLHostConfig>

However, this configuration does not run the mi server on port 8443. No listening on port 8443. It only works on port 8080.

The following message appears in the Tomcat logs:

15-Jul-2024 13:53:17.390 INFO [main] org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol.init Initializing ProtocolHandler ["http-nio-8080"] 15-Jul-2024 13:53:17.406 SEVERE [main] org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.handleSubClassException Failed to initialize component [Connector[org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProtocol-8443]] org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: The configured protocol [org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProtocol] requires the APR/native library which is not available at org.apache.catalina.connector.Connector.initInternal

How do I fix this?

Solution

The fix on TC9 and Windows is to install the APR in accordance with this.

Download the zipped TCL for Windows here.

Unzip it.

Copy the file at tomcat-native-1.3.0-openssl-3.0.13-win32-bin.zip\bin\x64\tcnative-1.dll into the java bin folder used by Tomcat, ie %JRE_HOME%/bin. You can also drop it in C:\Windows\System32 if you can't locate the java bin location.

Start Tomcat. You should see the following in the logs and HTTPS being served on port 8443.

 OpenSSL successfully initialized