Error Creating Application Link to Confluence

[Marat]

Hi!

We restored the confluence from the backup. And We get an error at the time of creation Application Link to Confluence in Jira.

In atlassian-confluence.log:

ERROR [ajp-nio-8049-exec-62] [core.rest.ui.CreateApplicationLinkUIResource] tryToFetchManifest ManifestNotFoundException thrown while retrieving manifest
-- referer: https://confluence.xxx.xx/admin/listapplicationlinks.action?applinkCreationStatusLog=%22%5B%7B%5C%22status%5C%22%3A%5C%22inprogress.creation%5C%22%7D%2C%7B%5C%22status%5C%22%3A%5C%22completed.creation.local%5C%22%7
D%2C%7B%5C%22status%5C%22%3A%5C%22inprogress.creation.reciprocal%5C%22%7D%5D%22&applinkOriginalCreatedId=%22f4689afd-99e3-30ad-8c7e-53feff0f419f%22&sharedUserbase=false&applinkStartingUrl=%22https%3A%2F%2Fjira.xxx.xx%22&applink
StartingType=%22jira%22 | url: /rest/applinks/2.0/applicationlinkForm/manifest.json | userName: xxxxxx
com.atlassian.applinks.spi.manifest.ManifestNotFoundException: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: una
ble to find valid certification path to requested target

Caused by: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
at sun.security.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Alerts.java:192)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.fatal(SSLSocketImpl.java:1937)
at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.fatalSE(Handshaker.java:302)
at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.fatalSE(Handshaker.java:296)
at sun.security.ssl.ClientHandshaker.serverCertificate(ClientHandshaker.java:1478)
at sun.security.ssl.ClientHandshaker.processMessage(ClientHandshaker.java:212)
at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.processLoop(Handshaker.java:979)
at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.process_record(Handshaker.java:914)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readRecord(SSLSocketImpl.java:1050)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.performInitialHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1363)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1391)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1375)
at org.apache.commons.httpclient.protocol.SSLProtocolSocketFactory.createSocket(SSLProtocolSocketFactory.java:175)
at com.atlassian.sal.core.net.CustomSSLProtocolSocketFactory.createSocket(CustomSSLProtocolSocketFactory.java:101)
at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpConnection.open(HttpConnection.java:707)
at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector.executeWithRetry(HttpMethodDirector.java:387)
at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector.executeMethod(HttpMethodDirector.java:171)
at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient.executeMethod(HttpClient.java:397)
at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient.executeMethod(HttpClient.java:323)
at com.atlassian.sal.core.net.HttpClientRequest.executeMethod(HttpClientRequest.java:597)
at com.atlassian.sal.core.net.HttpClientRequest.executeMethod(HttpClientRequest.java:556)
at com.atlassian.sal.core.net.HttpClientRequest.executeAndReturn(HttpClientRequest.java:360)
at com.atlassian.plugins.rest.module.jersey.JerseyRequest.executeAndReturn(JerseyRequest.java:161)
... 248 more
Caused by: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
at sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.doBuild(PKIXValidator.java:387)
at sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.engineValidate(PKIXValidator.java:292)
at sun.security.validator.Validator.validate(Validator.java:260)
at sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.validate(X509TrustManagerImpl.java:324)
at sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.checkTrusted(X509TrustManagerImpl.java:229)
at sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.checkServerTrusted(X509TrustManagerImpl.java:124)
at sun.security.ssl.ClientHandshaker.serverCertificate(ClientHandshaker.java:1460)
... 268 more
Caused by: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
at sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilder.build(SunCertPathBuilder.java:145)
at sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilder.engineBuild(SunCertPathBuilder.java:131)
at java.security.cert.CertPathBuilder.build(CertPathBuilder.java:280)
at sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.doBuild(PKIXValidator.java:382)
... 274 more

[Yogesh Mude · Accepted solution]

HI @Marat

You need to import your SSL cert to target instance as well...

for more details please have a look at the below KB.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/kb/unable-to-connect-to-ssl-services-due-to-pkix-path-building-failed-779355358.html