How to prepare and add Godaddy SSL wildcard certificate to Wildfly/JBoss

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I have a done some research into how to prepare the wildcard certificate and add it in a manner in which it could be used within WildFly/JBoss (I'm using WildFly 16, but it should be the same for JBoss).

Files I have (and what they are – gathered from Discerning GoDaddy SSL Certificate Types):

  • <series of numbers>.crt: My certificate
  • gd_bundle-g2-g1.crt: GoDaddy Certificate Bundles – G2 With Cross to G1, includes Root
  • gdig2.crt.pem: GoDaddy Secure Server Certificate (Intermediate Certificate) – G2
  • privatekey.txt: Private Key for my certificate

Through a series of research and assistance from a coworker, I found I could prepare and add the certificates via the following commands:

openssl pkcs12 -export -in <series of numbers>.crt -inkey privatekey.txt -out outfile.pkcs12 -name yourdomain.com -CAfile gd_bundle-g2-g1.crt -caname root
<enter a password>
keytool -importkeystore -trustcacerts -deststorepass <newpass> -destkeypass <newpass> -destkeystore new.keystore -srckeystore outfile.pkcs12 -srcstoretype PKCS12 -srcstorepass <password entered above> -alias yourdomain.com

So, this all works, from a browser anyway. I can browse to pages hosted via WildFly and they work fine and the browser reports no SSL errors. However, an application that I have which uses WebSocket connections failed to verify the certificate. To look into this more I used the following against my site:

openssl s_client -connect yoursite.yourdomain.com:443

This resulted in the following:

Verification error: unable to verify the first certificate

After researching this, I found that Firefox will perform "certificate discovery" and resolve the chain to verify the server's certificate, even if it wasn't provided. So here I am trying to determine what's missing…

Best Answer

While trying to resolve this, I suspected the excluded files were necessary for the resolution of the chain, but couldn't easily determine how to get them in. I did some trial and error and tested with openssl s_client each time until I figured out what worked. This was the series of commands that resolved the chain directly from the server:

cat <series of numbers>.crt gdig2.crt.pem > bundle.crt
openssl pkcs12 -export -in bundle.crt -inkey privatekey.txt -out outfile.pkcs12 -name yourdomain.com -CAfile gd_bundle-g2-g1.crt -caname root
<enter a password>
keytool -importkeystore -trustcacerts -deststorepass <newpass> -destkeypass <newpass> -destkeystore new.keystore -srckeystore outfile.pkcs12 -srcstoretype PKCS12 -srcstorepass <password entered above> -alias yourdomain.com

A simple addition resolved the problem. I hope this is helpful for somoene!

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