Server certificate verification failed: issuer is not trusted

Question

I am getting below error when running a target of ANT script. Error message saying that "server certificate verification is failed". Please help how to remove this problem. I am working in Windows XP.

C:\apache-ant-1.8.1>ant checkout Buildfile: C:\Program Files\Java\apache-ant-1.8.1\build.xml  checkout: [svn] Using command line interface Svn : Checking out a working copy from a repository : co -r HEAD https://col.../trunk C:\ant-1.8.1\Test_Checkout  --username 69 --password *******--non-interactive svn: PROPFIND request failed on '/svn/asia-pac-financials/trunk' svn: PROPFIND of '/sv.../trunk':  Server certificate verification failed:  issuer is not trusted (https://col....com)  BUILD FAILED C:\apache-ant-1.8.1\build.xml:16: Can't checkout  Total time: 3 seconds 

Answer 1

can you try to run svn checkout once manually to your URL https://yoururl/trunk C:\ant-1.8.1\Test_Checkout using command line and accept certificate.

Or as @AndrewSpear says below

Rather than checking out manually run svn list https://your.repository.url from Terminal (Mac) / Command Line (Win) to get the option to accept the certificate permanently

svn will ask you for confirmation. accept it permanently.

After that this should work for subsequent requests from ant script.

Answer 2

Run "svn help commit" to all available options. You will see that there is one option responsible for accepting server certificates:

--trust-server-cert : accept unknown SSL server certificates without prompting (but only with --non-interactive)

Add it to your svn command arguments and you will not need to run svn manually to accept it permanently.