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How to configure standalone Solr in SSL mode in Windchill PDMLink

Modified: 12-Nov-2025   


Applies To

  • Windchill PDMLink 11.0 to 12.0

Description

  • How to configure Solr in SSL mode?
  • Unable to login to Solr User Interface (UI) after configuring SSL for Standalone Index Search Server (Solr)
  • Browser User Interface (UI) reports following error:
HTTP ERROR 401
Problem accessing /solr/. Reason: 
Unauthorized
  • Solr Server startup failed after configuring the solr in SSL mode
  • In solr.log logs file, it reports following errors:
WARN  (main) [   ] o.e.j.u.c.AbstractLifeCycle FAILED SslContextFactory@b2c9a9c(./etc/solr-ssl.keystore.jks,./etc/solr-ssl.keystore.jks): java.io.IOException: Keystore was tampered with, or password was incorrect
java.io.IOException: Keystore was tampered with, or password was incorrect
at sun.security.provider.JavaKeyStore.engineLoad(JavaKeyStore.java:780)
at sun.security.provider.JavaKeyStore$JKS.engineLoad(JavaKeyStore.java:56)
at sun.security.provider.KeyStoreDelegator.engineLoad(KeyStoreDelegator.java:224)
Caused by: java.security.UnrecoverableKeyException: Password verification failed
at sun.security.provider.JavaKeyStore.engineLoad(JavaKeyStore.java:778)
  • Indexing fails with following error while running bulk index tool: windchill wt.index.BulkIndexTool
ERROR [IndexQueue2.PollingThread] wt.index.SolrIndexer Administrator - Error in delete method 
org.apache.solr.client.solrj.impl.HttpSolrClient$RemoteSolrException: Error from server at https://<solr host name>:<solr port number>/solr/wblib: Expected mime type application/octet-stream but got text/html. <html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
<title>Error 401 Unauthorized</title>
</head>
<body><h2>HTTP ERROR 401</h2>
<p>Problem accessing /solr/wblib/update. Reason:
<pre>    Unauthorized</pre></p><hr><i><small>Powered by Jetty://</small></i><hr/>
Caused by: wt.util.WTException: Error processing collection
at wt.index.IndexingServiceImpl.updateIndexer(IndexingServiceImpl.java:235)
at wt.index.StandardIndexPolicyManager.updateIndexer(StandardIndexPolicyManager.java:123)
  • After upgrade to Windchill 11.0 M030 CPS03, Solr fails to index objects
    "ERROR (qtp1514322932-17) [   x:wblib] c.p.s.u.p.PTCUpdateRequestProcessor error getting content
    javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: Received fatal alert: handshake_failure"
  • Facing issue while Solr core creation in rehosted Solr server with SSL enabled:
    INFO org-apache.solr.util.configuration.SSLConfigurations; Setting javax.net.ssl.keyStorePassword
    INFO org-apache.solr.util.configuration.SSLConfigurations; Setting javax.net.ssl.truststorePassword
    
    Connection to <Source_Solr_Server> failed
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