Why does my SSL certificate not work with the Tomcat Native Library?

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Issue

  • SSL was working with existing certificate before the Tomcat Native library was installed.  However, now I have installed the Tomcat Native library and I am not able to get the APR connector to use my existing PKCS12 keystore.  I get the following exception:
ERROR [Http11AprProtocol] Error initializing endpoint java.lang.Exception: No Certificate file specified or invalid file format
                at org.apache.tomcat.jni.SSLContext.setCertificate(Native Method)
                at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AprEndpoint.init(AprEndpoint.java:660)
                at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProtocol.init(Http11AprProtocol.java:106)
                at org.apache.catalina.connector.Connector.initialize(Connector.java:1029)
ERROR [org.apache.coyote.http11] (MSC service thread 1-4) [] [] [] JBWEB003043: Error initializing endpoint: java.lang.Exception: No Certificate file specified or invalid file format
  • Not able to use Native connectors, due to above SSL exception

Environment

  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
    • 4.x
    • 5.x
    • 6.x
  • Tomcat

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