# Facing an \`SSLHandshakeException\` when first ran elasticsearch after installation

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/facing-an-sslhandshakeexception-when-first-ran-elasticsearch-after-installation/311706>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 9, 2022, 10:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/facing-an-sslhandshakeexception-when-first-ran-elasticsearch-after-installation/311706 "2022-08-09T10:02:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![hend](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a4c791/32.png) [@hend](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hend)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2022, 10:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/facing-an-sslhandshakeexception-when-first-ran-elasticsearch-after-installation/311706/1 "2022-08-09T10:02:11Z")

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Hey, I'm very new to Elasticsearch and was following the installation steps, when I tried running it I get this error. not sure **which certificate is missing and where/how to get it**.

Any help?

```auto
[2022-08-09T12:45:29,496][INFO][o.e.x.s.a.Realms] [node-1] license mode is [basic], currently licensed security realms are [reserved/reserved,file/default_file,native/default_native]
[2022-08-09T12:45:29,501][INFO][o.e.g.GatewayService] [node-1] recovered [10] indices into cluster_state
[2022-08-09T12:45:31,540][ERROR][o.e.i.g.GeoIpDownloader] [node-1] error downloading geoip database [GeoLite2-ASN.mmdb]
javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
        at sun.security.ssl.Alert.createSSLException(Alert.java:131) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.TransportContext.fatal(TransportContext.java:371) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.TransportContext.fatal(TransportContext.java:314) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.TransportContext.fatal(TransportContext.java:309) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.CertificateMessage$T12CertificateConsumer.checkServerCerts(CertificateMessage.java:654) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.CertificateMessage$T12CertificateConsumer.onCertificate(CertificateMessage.java:473) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.CertificateMessage$T12CertificateConsumer.consume(CertificateMessage.java:369) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.SSLHandshake.consume(SSLHandshake.java:396) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.HandshakeContext.dispatch(HandshakeContext.java:480) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.HandshakeContext.dispatch(HandshakeContext.java:458) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.TransportContext.dispatch(TransportContext.java:201) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.SSLTransport.decode(SSLTransport.java:172) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.decode(SSLSocketImpl.java:1505) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readHandshakeRecord(SSLSocketImpl.java:1420) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:455) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:426) ~[?:?]
        at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.afterConnect(HttpsClient.java:578) ~[?:?]
        at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.connect(AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.java:183) ~[?:?]
        at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream0(HttpURLConnection.java:1665) ~[?:?]
        at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1589) ~[?:?]
        at java.net.HttpURLConnection.getResponseCode(HttpURLConnection.java:529) ~[?:?]
        at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getResponseCode(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:308) ~[?:?]
        at org.elasticsearch.ingest.geoip.HttpClient.lambda$get$0(HttpClient.java:46) ~[ingest-geoip-8.3.3.jar:8.3.3]
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:569) ~[?:?]
        at org.elasticsearch.ingest.geoip.HttpClient.doPrivileged(HttpClient.java:88) ~[ingest-geoip-8.3.3.jar:8.3.3]
        at org.elasticsearch.ingest.geoip.HttpClient.get(HttpClient.java:40) ~[ingest-geoip-8.3.3.jar:8.3.3]
        at org.elasticsearch.ingest.geoip.GeoIpDownloader.processDatabase(GeoIpDownloader.java:177) [ingest-geoip-8.3.3.jar:8.3.3]
        at org.elasticsearch.ingest.geoip.GeoIpDownloader.updateDatabases(GeoIpDownloader.java:146) [ingest-geoip-8.3.3.jar:8.3.3]
        at org.elasticsearch.ingest.geoip.GeoIpDownloader.runDownloader(GeoIpDownloader.java:274) [ingest-geoip-8.3.3.jar:8.3.3]
        at org.elasticsearch.ingest.geoip.GeoIpDownloaderTaskExecutor.nodeOperation(GeoIpDownloaderTaskExecutor.java:102) [ingest-geoip-8.3.3.jar:8.3.3]
        at org.elasticsearch.ingest.geoip.GeoIpDownloaderTaskExecutor.nodeOperation(GeoIpDownloaderTaskExecutor.java:48) [ingest-geoip-8.3.3.jar:8.3.3]
        at org.elasticsearch.persistent.NodePersistentTasksExecutor$1.doRun(NodePersistentTasksExecutor.java:42) [elasticsearch-8.3.3.jar:?]
        at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.ThreadContext$ContextPreservingAbstractRunnable.doRun(ThreadContext.java:769) [elasticsearch-8.3.3.jar:?]
        at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.AbstractRunnable.run(AbstractRunnable.java:26) [elasticsearch-8.3.3.jar:?]
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1136) [?:?]
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:635) [?:?]
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:833) [?:?]
Caused by: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
        at sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.doBuild(PKIXValidator.java:388) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.engineValidate(PKIXValidator.java:271) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.validator.Validator.validate(Validator.java:256) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.checkTrusted(X509TrustManagerImpl.java:231) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.checkServerTrusted(X509TrustManagerImpl.java:132) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.CertificateMessage$T12CertificateConsumer.checkServerCerts(CertificateMessage.java:638) ~[?:?]
        ... 32 more
Caused by: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
        at sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilder.build(SunCertPathBuilder.java:141) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilder.engineBuild(SunCertPathBuilder.java:126) ~[?:?]
        at java.security.cert.CertPathBuilder.build(CertPathBuilder.java:297) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.doBuild(PKIXValidator.java:383) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.engineValidate(PKIXValidator.java:271) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.validator.Validator.validate(Validator.java:256) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.checkTrusted(X509TrustManagerImpl.java:231) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.checkServerTrusted(X509TrustManagerImpl.java:132) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.CertificateMessage$T12CertificateConsumer.checkServerCerts(CertificateMessage.java:638) ~[?:?]
        ... 32 more
[2022-08-09T12:45:31,760][ERROR][o.e.i.g.GeoIpDownloader] [node-1] error downloading geoip database [GeoLite2-City.mmdb]
javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
        at sun.security.ssl.Alert.createSSLException(Alert.java:131) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.TransportContext.fatal(TransportContext.java:371) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.TransportContext.fatal(TransportContext.java:314) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.TransportContext.fatal(TransportContext.java:309) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.CertificateMessage$T12CertificateConsumer.checkServerCerts(CertificateMessage.java:654) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.CertificateMessage$T12CertificateConsumer.onCertificate(CertificateMessage.java:473) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.CertificateMessage$T12CertificateConsumer.consume(CertificateMessage.java:369) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.SSLHandshake.consume(SSLHandshake.java:396) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.HandshakeContext.dispatch(HandshakeContext.java:480) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.HandshakeContext.dispatch(HandshakeContext.java:458) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.TransportContext.dispatch(TransportContext.java:201) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.SSLTransport.decode(SSLTransport.java:172) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.decode(SSLSocketImpl.java:1505) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readHandshakeRecord(SSLSocketImpl.java:1420) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:455) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:426) ~[?:?]
        at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.afterConnect(HttpsClient.java:578) ~[?:?]
        at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.connect(AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.java:183) ~[?:?]
        at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream0(HttpURLConnection.java:1665) ~[?:?]
        at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1589) ~[?:?]
        at java.net.HttpURLConnection.getResponseCode(HttpURLConnection.java:529) ~[?:?]
        at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getResponseCode(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:308) ~[?:?]
        at org.elasticsearch.ingest.geoip.HttpClient.lambda$get$0(HttpClient.java:46) ~[ingest-geoip-8.3.3.jar:8.3.3]
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:569) ~[?:?]
        at org.elasticsearch.ingest.geoip.HttpClient.doPrivileged(HttpClient.java:88) ~[ingest-geoip-8.3.3.jar:8.3.3]
        at org.elasticsearch.ingest.geoip.HttpClient.get(HttpClient.java:40) ~[ingest-geoip-8.3.3.jar:8.3.3]
        at org.elasticsearch.ingest.geoip.GeoIpDownloader.processDatabase(GeoIpDownloader.java:177) [ingest-geoip-8.3.3.jar:8.3.3]
        at org.elasticsearch.ingest.geoip.GeoIpDownloader.updateDatabases(GeoIpDownloader.java:146) [ingest-geoip-8.3.3.jar:8.3.3]
        at org.elasticsearch.ingest.geoip.GeoIpDownloader.runDownloader(GeoIpDownloader.java:274) [ingest-geoip-8.3.3.jar:8.3.3]
        at org.elasticsearch.ingest.geoip.GeoIpDownloaderTaskExecutor.nodeOperation(GeoIpDownloaderTaskExecutor.java:102) [ingest-geoip-8.3.3.jar:8.3.3]
        at org.elasticsearch.ingest.geoip.GeoIpDownloaderTaskExecutor.nodeOperation(GeoIpDownloaderTaskExecutor.java:48) [ingest-geoip-8.3.3.jar:8.3.3]
        at org.elasticsearch.persistent.NodePersistentTasksExecutor$1.doRun(NodePersistentTasksExecutor.java:42) [elasticsearch-8.3.3.jar:?]
        at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.ThreadContext$ContextPreservingAbstractRunnable.doRun(ThreadContext.java:769) [elasticsearch-8.3.3.jar:?]
        at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.AbstractRunnable.run(AbstractRunnable.java:26) [elasticsearch-8.3.3.jar:?]
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1136) [?:?]
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:635) [?:?]
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:833) [?:?]
Caused by: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
        at sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.doBuild(PKIXValidator.java:388) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.engineValidate(PKIXValidator.java:271) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.validator.Validator.validate(Validator.java:256) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.checkTrusted(X509TrustManagerImpl.java:231) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.checkServerTrusted(X509TrustManagerImpl.java:132) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.CertificateMessage$T12CertificateConsumer.checkServerCerts(CertificateMessage.java:638) ~[?:?]
        ... 32 more
Caused by: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
        at sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilder.build(SunCertPathBuilder.java:141) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilder.engineBuild(SunCertPathBuilder.java:126) ~[?:?]
        at java.security.cert.CertPathBuilder.build(CertPathBuilder.java:297) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.doBuild(PKIXValidator.java:383) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.engineValidate(PKIXValidator.java:271) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.validator.Validator.validate(Validator.java:256) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.checkTrusted(X509TrustManagerImpl.java:231) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.checkServerTrusted(X509TrustManagerImpl.java:132) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.CertificateMessage$T12CertificateConsumer.checkServerCerts(CertificateMessage.java:638) ~[?:?]
        ... 32 more
[2022-08-09T12:45:31,930][ERROR][o.e.i.g.GeoIpDownloader] [node-1] error downloading geoip database [GeoLite2-Country.mmdb]
javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
        at sun.security.ssl.Alert.createSSLException(Alert.java:131) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.TransportContext.fatal(TransportContext.java:371) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.TransportContext.fatal(TransportContext.java:314) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.TransportContext.fatal(TransportContext.java:309) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.CertificateMessage$T12CertificateConsumer.checkServerCerts(CertificateMessage.java:654) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.CertificateMessage$T12CertificateConsumer.onCertificate(CertificateMessage.java:473) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.CertificateMessage$T12CertificateConsumer.consume(CertificateMessage.java:369) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.SSLHandshake.consume(SSLHandshake.java:396) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.HandshakeContext.dispatch(HandshakeContext.java:480) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.HandshakeContext.dispatch(HandshakeContext.java:458) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.TransportContext.dispatch(TransportContext.java:201) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.SSLTransport.decode(SSLTransport.java:172) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.decode(SSLSocketImpl.java:1505) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readHandshakeRecord(SSLSocketImpl.java:1420) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:455) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:426) ~[?:?]
        at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.afterConnect(HttpsClient.java:578) ~[?:?]
        at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.connect(AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.java:183) ~[?:?]
        at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream0(HttpURLConnection.java:1665) ~[?:?]
        at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1589) ~[?:?]
        at java.net.HttpURLConnection.getResponseCode(HttpURLConnection.java:529) ~[?:?]
        at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getResponseCode(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:308) ~[?:?]
        at org.elasticsearch.ingest.geoip.HttpClient.lambda$get$0(HttpClient.java:46) ~[ingest-geoip-8.3.3.jar:8.3.3]
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:569) ~[?:?]
        at org.elasticsearch.ingest.geoip.HttpClient.doPrivileged(HttpClient.java:88) ~[ingest-geoip-8.3.3.jar:8.3.3]
        at org.elasticsearch.ingest.geoip.HttpClient.get(HttpClient.java:40) ~[ingest-geoip-8.3.3.jar:8.3.3]
        at org.elasticsearch.ingest.geoip.GeoIpDownloader.processDatabase(GeoIpDownloader.java:177) [ingest-geoip-8.3.3.jar:8.3.3]
        at org.elasticsearch.ingest.geoip.GeoIpDownloader.updateDatabases(GeoIpDownloader.java:146) [ingest-geoip-8.3.3.jar:8.3.3]
        at org.elasticsearch.ingest.geoip.GeoIpDownloader.runDownloader(GeoIpDownloader.java:274) [ingest-geoip-8.3.3.jar:8.3.3]
        at org.elasticsearch.ingest.geoip.GeoIpDownloaderTaskExecutor.nodeOperation(GeoIpDownloaderTaskExecutor.java:102) [ingest-geoip-8.3.3.jar:8.3.3]
        at org.elasticsearch.ingest.geoip.GeoIpDownloaderTaskExecutor.nodeOperation(GeoIpDownloaderTaskExecutor.java:48) [ingest-geoip-8.3.3.jar:8.3.3]
        at org.elasticsearch.persistent.NodePersistentTasksExecutor$1.doRun(NodePersistentTasksExecutor.java:42) [elasticsearch-8.3.3.jar:?]
        at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.ThreadContext$ContextPreservingAbstractRunnable.doRun(ThreadContext.java:769) [elasticsearch-8.3.3.jar:?]
        at org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.AbstractRunnable.run(AbstractRunnable.java:26) [elasticsearch-8.3.3.jar:?]
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1136) [?:?]
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:635) [?:?]
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:833) [?:?]
Caused by: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
        at sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.doBuild(PKIXValidator.java:388) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.engineValidate(PKIXValidator.java:271) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.validator.Validator.validate(Validator.java:256) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.checkTrusted(X509TrustManagerImpl.java:231) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.checkServerTrusted(X509TrustManagerImpl.java:132) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.CertificateMessage$T12CertificateConsumer.checkServerCerts(CertificateMessage.java:638) ~[?:?]
        ... 32 more
Caused by: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
        at sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilder.build(SunCertPathBuilder.java:141) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilder.engineBuild(SunCertPathBuilder.java:126) ~[?:?]
        at java.security.cert.CertPathBuilder.build(CertPathBuilder.java:297) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.doBuild(PKIXValidator.java:383) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.engineValidate(PKIXValidator.java:271) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.validator.Validator.validate(Validator.java:256) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.checkTrusted(X509TrustManagerImpl.java:231) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.checkServerTrusted(X509TrustManagerImpl.java:132) ~[?:?]
        at sun.security.ssl.CertificateMessage$T12CertificateConsumer.checkServerCerts(CertificateMessage.java:638) ~[?:?]
        ... 32 more
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**Post date:** [September 6, 2022, 10:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/facing-an-sslhandshakeexception-when-first-ran-elasticsearch-after-installation/311706/2 "2022-09-06T10:02:27Z")

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