Recently we have configured our nexus server to HTTPS (SSL). Upon doing the same on trying to upload or download the artifacts from nexus server we faced “PKIX path build validation failed”. To resolve this case we imported that certificate in the trust source of Java ( $JAVA_HOME/lib/security/cacer…

Nexus server configured with HTTPS caused "PKIX path building failed" exception

mpiggott (Matthew Piggott) December 22, 2020, 5:24pm 2

That is an error indicating whatever tool you’re using doesn’t recognize the certificate authority

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