Article - CS253318
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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