title: Is it possible to install a wildcard certificate without the private key on Tomcat?
body: <p>I received following files from another department in my company which I am supposed to install on my Tomcat 8.5 Webserver in order to activate HTTPS and use TLS/SSL:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>csr.pem</li>
  <li>ca.pem</li>
  <li>intermediate.pem</li>
  <li>certificate.crt</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Most tutorials I found online guide through the process of creating the keystore, generating a CSR and installing the certificate received afterwards. My company wishes to use it's wildcard certificate, so the certificate and related files exist already.</p>
  
  <p>I tried to generate a new keystore with my own private key &amp; import ca, intermediate &amp; certificate in it, but I'm getting an error which says that the public key doesn't match with my keystore. </p>
  
  <p>I guess, this is because I need to import the private key used to generate the CSR before. But since I don't have it, I want to make sure - is it possible to install the certificate without the private key (respectively generating my own private key) or did they possible forget to send it along?</p>