Showing posts with label SSL. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SSL. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Tomcat "Cannot recover key" SSL error

Tomcat has been enabled with SSL port. While renewing the SSL certificate, Tomcat server is throwing below error.

java.io.IOException: Cannot recover key
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.jsse.JSSESocketFactory.init(JSSESocketFactory.java:507)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.jsse.JSSESocketFactory.createSocket(JSSESocketFactory.java:218)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint.bind(JIoEndpoint.java:400)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AbstractEndpoint.init(AbstractEndpoint.java:650)
        at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol.init(AbstractProtocol.java:434)
        at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11JsseProtocol.init(AbstractHttp11JsseProtocol.java:119)
        at org.apache.catalina.connector.Connector.initInternal(Connector.java:978)
        at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.init(LifecycleBase.java:102)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.initInternal(StandardService.java:559)
        at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.init(LifecycleBase.java:102)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.initInternal(StandardServer.java:821)
        at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.init(LifecycleBase.java:102)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:642)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:667)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)


The error indicates that key can't be recovered using the password specified in server.xml. SSL section in server.xml is as shown below. If you have wallet pfx/p12 file, then you may convert it to java keystore using the same wallet password to use for java keystore password. 

<Connector port="8443" protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol"  maxThreads="100" SSLEnabled="true" scheme="https" secure="true"            keystoreFile="/u01/app.jks" keystorePass="XXXXX"  clientAuth="false" SSLProtocol="TLS" sslEnabledProtocols="TLSv1.2" />

The keystorePass value is different from passphrase used while creating private key/cert. After recreating the java keystore with same password as key and updated server.xml with new password and Tomcat started working fine. 

Friday, May 22, 2015

wlst.sh failed to connect in SSL

We have enabled SSL for WebLogic Admin Server and disabled the non-SSL port. We wanted to run some WLST commands and ran wlst.sh from
While trying to connect to wlst.sh with SSL port to admin server, the connection failed. I've tried various combinations of hosts with/without domain name and localhost too. See the below screenshot.


The actual fix is to add -Dweblogic.security.SSL.ignoreHostnameVerification=true parameter in startWebLogic.sh script. This parameter will essentially disable the hostname verification and required for stand alone clients connecting to weblogic server.

Restarted the WebLogic servers after making the script changes and wlst.sh connection worked with SSL.