tomcat 7 + ssl not working - ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH

Question

Ubuntu 14, tomcat 7, java 7

our.crt, our.key and gd_bundle-g2-g1.crt supplied by godaddy. The bundle has 3 certs in it (as seen by vi'ing the file).

Note, our key and crt were used on node.js without issue.

we created a keystore from the existing crt thusly:

cd /etc/ssl
openssl pkcs12 -export -in our.crt -inkey our.key -out our.p12 -name tomcat -CAfile gd_bundle-g2-g1.crt -caname root -chain

The server.xml is this:

<Server port="8005" shutdown="SHUTDOWN">

<Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.JasperListener" />
<Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.JreMemoryLeakPreventionListener" />
<Listener className="org.apache.catalina.mbeans.GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener" />
<Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.ThreadLocalLeakPreventionListener" />



<GlobalNamingResources>
<Resource name="UserDatabase" auth="Container"
          type="org.apache.catalina.UserDatabase"
          description="User database that can be updated and saved"
          factory="org.apache.catalina.users.MemoryUserDatabaseFactory"
          pathname="conf/tomcat-users.xml" />
</GlobalNamingResources>


<Service name="Catalina">

<Connector port="80" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
           connectionTimeout="20000"
           URIEncoding="UTF-8"
           redirectPort="8443" />

<Connector port="8443" protocol="HTTP/1.1" SSLEnabled="true"
           maxThreads="200" scheme="https" secure="true"
           keystoreType="PKCS12"
           keystoreFile="/etc/ssl/our.p12" keystorePass=""
           clientAuth="false" sslProtocol="TLS" />

• Tomcat starts up with no errors.
• The webapp works fine on port 80.
• The server has no fw running.

We setup a local redirect from 443 to 8443:

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 443 -j REDIRECT --to-port 8443

Then try https://www.ourserver.com/ourapp

Chrome gives: ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH

curl examples running on local machine:

curl -Iv https://www.ourserver.com:8443
* Rebuilt URL to: https://www.ourserver.com:8443/
* Hostname was NOT found in DNS cache
*   Trying 1xxxxxxxx...
* Connected to www.ourserver.com (1xxxx) port 8443 (#0)
* successfully set certificate verify locations:
*   CAfile: none
  CApath: /etc/ssl/certs
* SSLv3, TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
* SSLv3, TLS alert, Server hello (2):
* error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure
* Closing connection 0
curl: (35) error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure

Any ideas?

UPDATE 1

I tried setting up a new tomcat 7 on a new server, and installed a fresh copy of the certs, and got the same error.

Answer 1

Try adding ciphers attribute into your connector tag like

ciphers="TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,
   TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA,
   TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA,TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA256,
   TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA,SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA"

If this not help then try changing your protocol attribute from protocol="HTTP/1.1" to protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol"

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