Problem starting tomcat

[leonidos]

Hi all,
after trying to install tomcat an ssl, i receive the following error:
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INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on port 8080
12.11.2003 10:35:15 org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol init
SCHWERWIEGEND: Error initializing endpoint
java.io.IOException: Too many certificates in chain
at sun.security.provider.JavaKeyStore.engineLoad(JavaKeyStore.java:656)
at java.security.KeyStore.load(KeyStore.java:652)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.jsse.JSSESocketFactory.initKeyStore(JSSESocketFactory.java:187)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.jsse.JSSE14SocketFactory.initProxy(JSSE14SocketFactory.java:147)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.jsse.JSSESocketFactory.createSocket(JSSESocketFactory.java:127)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.initEndpoint(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:275)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol.init(Http11Protocol.java:150)
at org.apache.coyote.tomcat4.CoyoteConnector.initialize(CoyoteConnector.java:1156)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.initialize(StandardService.java:579)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.initialize(StandardServer.java:2246)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:511)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.execute(Catalina.java:400)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.process(Catalina.java:180)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:203)
Catalina.start: LifecycleException: Protocol handler initialization failed: java.io.IOException: Too many certificates in chain
LifecycleException: Protocol handler initialization failed: java.io.IOException: Too many certificates in chain
at org.apache.coyote.tomcat4.CoyoteConnector.initialize(CoyoteConnector.java:1158)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.initialize(StandardService.java:579)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.initialize(StandardServer.java:2246)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:511)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.execute(Catalina.java:400)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.process(Catalina.java:180)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:203)
Catalina.stop: LifecycleException: This server has not yet been started
LifecycleException: This server has not yet been started
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.stop(StandardServer.java:2213)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:543)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.execute(Catalina.java:400)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.process(Catalina.java:180)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:203)

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can anybody help me?
thanks before
-- leo --

[Mark Greene_1]

How did you do the ssl cert? Did you self-certify or buy a cert from Verisign or Thawt? Either you have a problem with your cert, or it's not config'd correctely.

mark