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Of course, this requires that your cacerts contains a key, self-signed or otherwise, for your server. There's more documentation on SSL certificate issues here.
Building the .war
Installing the .war into Tomcat
Stop your Tomcat.
Place the cas.war into your Tomcat's /webapps/ directory.
Start your Tomcat.
Trying it out
Configuring and Customizing CAS
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