SSL0115E: Initialization error, Error validating ASN fields in certificate

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Author: Christoph Stoettner
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Today I got a call that a IBM HTTP Server stopped working after a reboot. The service starts and ends again after some seconds. In the error_log of IBM HTTP we found following messages:

[notice] Bld version: 8.5.5
[notice] Bld date: Oct 30 2014, 11:44:02
[notice] Webserver: IBM_HTTP_Server
[notice] Using config file C:/IBM/HTTPServer/conf/httpd.conf
[notice] IBM_HTTP_Server/8.5.5.4 (Win32) configured -- resuming normal operations
[notice] Server built: Oct 20 2014 10:58:09
[notice] Disabled use of AcceptEx() WinSock2 API
[notice] Parent: Created child process 4004
[crit] Error 10 initializing SSL environment, aborting startup
[error] SSL0115E: Initialization error, Error validating ASN fields in certificate. Configuration Failed
[crit] (OS 1813)The specified resource type cannot be found in the image file.  : master_main: create child process failed. Exiting.
[notice] Parent: Forcing termination of child process 5

Good source found was:

https://developer.ibm.com/answers/questions/195652/why-is-the-ibm-http-server-8x-version-fails-to-sta.html

In our case the Stashfile was configured with a expiration date. So just open the keyfile, change password and check that the option expiration of stash is deactivated.

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