“peer not authenticated” error during plugin fetch in Gradle build was resolved by upgrading Java to version 1.8

Summary:
“peer not authenticated” error during plugin fetch in Gradle build was resolved by upgrading Java to version 1.8

Troubleshooting Process:

Problem
[root@server01 my-project]# gradle war

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Build file ‘/root/tmp/git/my-project/build.gradle’ line: 6

* What went wrong:
Error resolving plugin [id: ‘com.moowork.node’, version: ‘0.12’]
> Could not GET ‘https://plugins.gradle.org/api/gradle/2.10/plugin/use/com.moowork.node/0.12’.
> peer not authenticated

* Try:
Run with –stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with –info or –debug option to get more log output.

BUILD FAILED

Total time: 7.763 secs

 

To see if the URL really is not accessible
[root@server01 tmp]# wget https://plugins.gradle.org/api/gradle/2.10/plugin/use/com.moowork.node/0.12
–2016-05-10 19:49:06– https://plugins.gradle.org/api/gradle/2.10/plugin/use/com.moowork.node/0.12
Resolving plugins.gradle.org… 104.25.172.23, 104.25.173.23, 2400:cb00:2048:1::6819:ad17, …
Connecting to plugins.gradle.org|104.25.172.23|:443… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: unspecified [application/json]
Saving to: `0.12′

[ <=> ] 238 –.-K/s in 0s

2016-05-10 19:49:07 (25.4 MB/s) – `0.12′ saved [238]

[root@server01 tmp]# ll

-rw-r–r–. 1 root root 238 2016-05-10 19:49 0.12

 

Saw comments saying that upgrading Java7 to Java8 solved the problem from:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22887829/peer-not-authenticated-while-importing-gradle-project-in-eclipse

[root@server01 my-project]# java -version
java version “1.7.0_101”
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (rhel-2.6.6.1.el6_7-x86_64 u101-b00)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.95-b01, mixed mode)
[root@server01 my-project]# which java
/usr/bin/java
[root@server01 my-project]# ll /usr/bin/java
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 22 2016-05-02 11:15 /usr/bin/java -> /etc/alternatives/java

 

Following the instructions below,
http://tecadmin.net/install-java-8-on-centos-rhel-and-fedora/

[root@server01 my-project]# wget –no-cookies –no-check-certificate –header “Cookie: gpw_e24=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oracle.com%2F; oraclelicense=accept-securebackup-cookie” “http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u91-b14/jdk-8u91-linux-x64.tar.gz”
[root@server01 my-project]# tar xzf jdk-8u91-linux-x64.tar.gz
[root@server01 my-project]# mv jdk1.8.0_91/ /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.8.0_91
[root@server01 my-project]# alternatives –install /usr/bin/java java /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.8.0_91/bin/java 2
[root@server01 my-project]# alternatives –config java
———————————————–
*+ 1 /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.7.0-openjdk.x86_64/bin/java
2 /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64/bin/java
3 /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.8.0_91/bin/java

Because changing the default Java version was not desired, the path variable was modified for temporary testing purpose
[root@server01 my-project]# java -version
java version “1.7.0_101”
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (rhel-2.6.6.1.el6_7-x86_64 u101-b00)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.95-b01, mixed mode)
[root@server01 my-project]# which java
/usr/bin/java
[root@server01 my-project]# export PATH=/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.8.0_91/bin:$PATH
[root@server01 my-project]# which java
/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.8.0_91/bin/java
[root@server01 tmp]# java -version
java version “1.8.0_91”
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_91-b14)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.91-b14, mixed mode)

 

And finally,
[root@server01 vc-web-advanced]# gradle war
Download https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/com/moowork/gradle/gradle-node-plugin/0.12/gradle-node-plugin-0.12.pom
Download https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/com/moowork/gradle/gradle-gulp-plugin/0.12/gradle-gulp-plugin-0.12.pom
Download https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/com/moowork/gradle/gradle-node-plugin/0.12/gradle-node-plugin-0.12.jar
Download https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/com/moowork/gradle/gradle-gulp-plugin/0.12/gradle-gulp-plugin-0.12.jar
========================= Deploy : local-biz =========================
:compileJava

:war

BUILD SUCCESSFUL