Connecting Rider to TFVC on TFS, via direct access

Hi! Currently I am working from home and I am trying to use Rider to connect to TFS. While I was in the office everything works fine, but know, because I use Direct access to connect to TFS I cannot use Rider anymore, because the extension doesn’t work.

I took a look in the logs and I see this exception:

java.lang.RuntimeException: An error occurred: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target at com.microsoft.alm.plugin.external.commands.Command.throwIfError(Command.java:423) at com.microsoft.alm.plugin.external.commands.FindWorkspaceCommand.throwIfError(FindWorkspaceCommand.java:132) at com.microsoft.alm.plugin.external.commands.FindWorkspaceCommand.parseOutput(FindWorkspaceCommand.java:88) at com.microsoft.alm.plugin.external.commands.FindWorkspaceCommand.parseOutput(FindWorkspaceCommand.java:24) at com.microsoft.alm.plugin.external.commands.Command$1.completed(Command.java:178) at com.microsoft.alm.plugin.external.ToolRunner$ListenerProxy.completed(ToolRunner.java:295) at com.microsoft.alm.plugin.external.ToolRunner$ProcessWaiter.run(ToolRunner.java:333)

[eldamir]

I follow all the tips in #50 to no avail… Particularly here:

You can find it in the IntelliJ IDEA install folder, which in my case is C:\Program Files (x86)\JetBrains\IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2016.3.1\jre\jre\bin.

Once there you will then execute the following command

keytool -keystore “C:\Program Files (x86)\JetBrains\IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2016.3.1\jre\jre\lib\security\cacerts” -importcert -alias TFS -file “C:\temp\tfs.cer”

I’ve installed through Jetbrains Toolbox, and so that path doesn’t exist… I found my cacerts here:

• C:\Users\XX\AppData\Local\JetBrains\Toolbox\bin\jre\lib\security

And then I’m assuming that the correct JRE is here, but I may be wrong:

• C:\Users\XX\AppData\Local\JetBrains\jdk8\jre\bin

Actually, hang on, There is also a Rider-specific set here:

• C:\Users\XX\AppData\Local\JetBrains\Toolbox\apps\Rider\ch-0\223.6646.116\jbr\bin
• C:\Users\XX\AppData\Local\JetBrains\Toolbox\apps\Rider\ch-0\223.6646.116\jbr\lib\security\cacerts

Running the -importcert with these made the difference… Now it works…!

Thanks for being my Rubber Duck, @ForNeVeR

[ForNeVeR]

In that case, it’s clear you need to do something about the certificates the TFS client is using. Take a look at #50.