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Portal refuses to use x509 certifcate generated by an ACME issuer

Troubleshooting


Problem

Portal subsystem refuses to use a portal-web x509 certificate that was generated by an ACME issuer (https://cert-manager.io/docs/configuration/acme/) and contains the data ca.crt: ""

Symptom

The portal subsystem shows an error in the portal www pod, admin container like:

Cannot add the portal-web-ca to the trust store. No previous portal-web-ca exists in the trust store. Terminating container.

And if you check the portal-web secret yaml you see there is a ca.crt: "" member.

Resolving The Problem

To fix the problem within the portal-web secret yaml delete the line: 
ca.crt: ""

Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
15 December 2022

UID

ibm16846279