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![Gateway IDE Opened](../images/gateway/gateway-intellij-opened.png)

> Note the JetBrains IDE is remotely installed into `~/.cache/JetBrains/RemoteDev/dist`

## Configuring Gateway to use self-signed certificates

When attempting to connect to a Coder deployment that uses self-signed certificates,
you may receive the following error in Gateway:

```console
Failed to configure connection to https://coder.internal.enterprise/: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
```

To resolve this issue, you will need to add Coder's certificate to the Java trust store
present on your local machine. Here is the default location of the trust store for
each OS:

```console
# Linux
$JAVA_HOME/lib/security/cacerts
<Gateway installation directory>/etc/pki/java/cacerts
<Gateway installation directory>/etc/ssl/certs/java/cacerts

# macOS
$<Gateway installation directory>/lib/security/cacerts
$<Gateway installation directory>/jre/lib/security/cacerts

# Windows
C:\Program Files (x86)\<Gateway installation directory>\jre<version>\lib\security\cacerts
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If using JetBrains Toolbox, the path is,
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\JetBrains\Toolbox\bin\jre\lib\security\cacerts

```

To add the certificate to the keystore, you can use the `keytool` utility that ships
with Java:

```console
keytool -import -alias coder -file <certificate> -keystore /path/to/trust/store
```

On Windows, you can use `keytool` that ships with the JetBrains Gateway installation.
For example:

```powershell
& 'C:\Program Files\JetBrains\JetBrains Gateway <version>/jbr/bin/keytool.exe' 'C:\Program Files\JetBrains\JetBrains Gateway <version>/jbr/lib/security/cacerts' -import -alias coder -file <cert>
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similarly

& '%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\JetBrains\Toolbox\apps\Gateway\ch-0\<VERSION>\jbr\bin\keytool.exe' '%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\JetBrains\Toolbox\bin\jre\lib\security\cacerts' -import -alias coder -file <cert>

```