Thanks, Felix. Yesterday after the Holiday weekend we downloaded the certificates (which were pfx) and I used openssl to convert them and keytool to import them. All seems to work ok now.
-----Original Message----- From: Felix Schumacher [mailto:felix.schumac...@internetallee.de] Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 1:46 AM To: Tomcat Users List; users@tomcat.apache.org Subject: Re: SSL Certificate formats, requirements for import into existing keystore "Peterson, Tommy" <tommy.peter...@xpandcorp.com> schrieb: I have a keystore for an application that runs on Tomcat. People here introduced a load balancer (LB) into the mix for this same application and therefore I have to use keytool to import the LB's certificate into the existing keystore. However, the key and the cert are in one file. According to the docs this is not an issue (you can even concatenate them the docs say). So I just ran the keytool command and I continually get an error message: "keytool error: java.lang.Exception: Input not an X.509 certificate" The IT support folks said that this is the cert that was given to them by the hosting company and that it can be installed successfully on Apache. There is some "junk" ("bag attributes")n the file that I don't' understand. I am used to just seeing "-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- "----END CERTIFICATE----- "" ""-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- "-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY----- " Any suggestions? Thanks. _____________________________________________ This message contains Devin Group confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail in error and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmissions cannot be guaranteed secure, error-free and information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late, incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for errors or omissions in the contents of this message which may arise as result of transmission. If verification is required please request hard-copy version. Hi Tommy, Your file could be a pkcs12 file. Have you tried to use "keytool -importkeystore ..."? Keytool -help should give you the needed parameters. You need a recent java6 version for this to work. Regards Felix This message contains Devin Group confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail in error and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmissions cannot be guaranteed secure, error-free and information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late, incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for errors or omissions in the contents of this message which may arise as result of transmission. If verification is required please request hard-copy version.
