I'm trying to use the let's encrypt certificate for both Apache HTTPD and TOMCAT service of my ubuntu server VPS.
I found where there are letsencrypt stored certs looking into apache configuration, it was write by certboot script, and Apache is well working with this cert.
I use the same link for tomcat server.xml configuration but I got a permission denied error in its log:
SEVERE: Failed to initialize end point associated with ProtocolHandler ["http-apr-8443"]
java.lang.Exception: Unable to load certificate key /etc/letsencrypt/live/mysite.org/privkey.pem (error:0200100D:system library:fopen:Permission denied)
at org.apache.tomcat.jni.SSLContext.setCertificate(Native Method)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AprEndpoint.bind(AprEndpoint.java:657)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AbstractEndpoint.init(AbstractEndpoint.java:742)
at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol.init(AbstractProtocol.java:458)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.Connector.initInternal(Connector.java:960)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.init(LifecycleBase.java:102)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.initInternal(StandardService.java:568)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.init(LifecycleBase.java:102)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.initInternal(StandardServer.java:851)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.init(LifecycleBase.java:102)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:580)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:603)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.load(Bootstrap.java:310)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:484)
Oct 11, 2017 9:40:07 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService initInternal
SEVERE: Failed to initialize connector [Connector[HTTP/1.1-8443]]
org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to initialize component [Connector[HTTP/1.1-8443]]
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.init(LifecycleBase.java:107)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.initInternal(StandardService.java:568)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.init(LifecycleBase.java:102)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.initInternal(StandardServer.java:851)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.init(LifecycleBase.java:102)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:580)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:603)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.load(Bootstrap.java:310)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:484)
Caused by: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Protocol handler initialization failed
at org.apache.catalina.connector.Connector.initInternal(Connector.java:964)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.init(LifecycleBase.java:102)
... 12 more
Caused by: java.lang.Exception: Unable to load certificate key /etc/letsencrypt/live/mysite.org/privkey.pem (error:0200100D:system library:fopen:Permission denied)
at org.apache.tomcat.jni.SSLContext.setCertificate(Native Method)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AprEndpoint.bind(AprEndpoint.java:657)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AbstractEndpoint.init(AbstractEndpoint.java:742)
at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol.init(AbstractProtocol.java:458)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.Connector.initInternal(Connector.java:960)
... 13 more
Oct 11, 2017 9:40:07 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
Looking into permission I found this:
root@myvps:~# ls -la /etc/letsencrypt/live/mysite.org/
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 20 06:30 .
drwx------ 4 root root 4096 May 23 07:27 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Sep 20 06:30 cert.pem -> ../../archive/mysite.org/cert3.pem
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 Sep 20 06:30 chain.pem -> ../../archive/mysite.org/chain3.pem
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 Sep 20 06:30 fullchain.pem -> ../../archive/mysite.org/fullchain3.pem
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 Sep 20 06:30 privkey.pem -> ../../archive/mysite.org/privkey3.pem
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 543 May 23 07:27 README
root@myvps:~# ls -la /etc/letsencrypt/archive/mysite.org/
total 56
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 20 06:30 .
drwx------ 4 root root 4096 May 23 07:27 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1818 May 23 07:27 cert1.pem
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1814 Jul 22 06:30 cert2.pem
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1814 Sep 20 06:30 cert3.pem
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1647 May 23 07:27 chain1.pem
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1647 Jul 22 06:30 chain2.pem
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1647 Sep 20 06:30 chain3.pem
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3465 May 23 07:27 fullchain1.pem
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3461 Jul 22 06:30 fullchain2.pem
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3461 Sep 20 06:30 fullchain3.pem
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1704 May 23 07:27 privkey1.pem
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1704 Jul 22 06:30 privkey2.pem
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1704 Sep 20 06:30 privkey3.pem
As far as I know this answer to ls command shows that there is READ permission for symlink and real file for everybody. Am I right? So why tomcat is complaining about permissions if I'm pointing its cert to /etc/letsencrypt/live/mysite.org/cert.pem
?
usermod -a -G ssl-cert tomcat8
and see if the permissions issue persists.