PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target?

Question

I created a local keystore with keytool using java and done ssl configuration in Apache Tomcat.

I have been installed certificate in my local machine, even added to the jre cacerts as a trustedentry.

opening through browser via https is working fine

But the problem is while trying to access through directory services.

error: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target

Answer 1

Finally I got the issue resolved by finding out the correct JRE and adding the certificate as trusted entry.

Working with browser is fine since the browser knows that the certificate is trusted but JRE is dumb in this case. So, need to add the certificate as trusted entry to the cacerts keystore of the correct JRE(When we have multiple JREs installed on our system).