WebLogic SSL: No identity key/certificate entry was found under alias in keystore

Question

I'm struggling with the following problem.

I've been provided of a certificate and I added it to the default java keystore as follows:

keytool -import -alias finesceKey -keystore cacerts -trustcacerts -file certificate.cer

Now, I've both configured weblogic keystore and SSL parts in order to make it point the cacerts file, but when my application runs I receive the following error:

No identity key/certificate entry >was found under alias finesceKey in keystore /home/weblogic/jrockit-jdk1.6.0_29-R28.2.0->4.1.0/jre/lib/security/cacerts on server ManagedServer1

I'm pretty sure that paths, names and password are correct, infact if I use the keytool for listing the certificates by alias name, I get the expected result.

I tried to import again the certificate using a different alias name, and configure WL accordingly, but without success.

Please help me, thanks in advance.

BR

Solution

It looks like you're trying to use this keystore as a keystore, not as a truststore.

The keytool command you've used only imported the certificate, not its private key, which makes it useless as a keystore.

cacerts is generally used a truststore, and should really not contain any private key: don't use it as your Weblogic keystore, use a separate keystore if you need one.