Article - CS295970

Login to ThingWorx Navigate with "Windchill Authentication" option is failing with "HTTP Status 511"

Modified: 12-Aug-2025   


Applies To

  • Windchill Navigate (formerly ThingWorx Navigate) 1.7.0 to 10.0
  • ThingWorx Platform 8.4 to 10.0
  • Windchill PDMLink 11.0 to 13.1

Description

  • ThingWorx Navigate with Windchill Authentication shows HTTP Status 511 – Network Authentication Required after entering credentials
  • ThingWorx is not working getting error below after entering credentials
HTTP Status 511 – Network Authentication Required
PKIX path validation failed: java.security.cert.CertPathValidatorException: Path does not chain with any of the trust anchors
  • After installation of ThingWorx Navigate with Windchill Authentication the login to ThingWorx is failing with HTTP Status 511
  • After changing Authentication type from Fixed Authentication to Windchill Authentication, login to ThingWorx is failing with HTTP Status 511
  • ThingWorx Navigate is inaccessible after updating certificates
  • Integration Runtime starts up without issue but still cannot login with Windchill Authentication
  • Errors as seen in browser
Error 511
or
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or just
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  • After successful installation of ThingWorx , ThingWorx Navigate and configuring Windchill authentication, while logging we are facing issue
  • ThingWorx Error.log is reporting error below : 
[L: ERROR] [O: E.c.q.l.c.Logger] [I: ] [U: ] [S: ] [P: ] [T: https-jsse-nio-443-exec-5] sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target

 

 
 
 
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