# Error connecting to database

**URL:** <https://community.automationedge.com/t/error-connecting-to-database/10336>\
**Category:** Get Help & Discuss\
**Tags:** rpa, generic\
**Created:** [August 2, 2023, 5:44am UTC](https://community.automationedge.com/t/error-connecting-to-database/10336 "2023-08-02T05:44:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![akshay.dorle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@akshay.dorle](https://community.automationedge.com/u/akshay.dorle)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2023, 5:44am UTC](https://community.automationedge.com/t/error-connecting-to-database/10336/1 "2023-08-02T05:44:52Z")

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Hi!

I am getting the following error while trying to connect to the database: the server selected protocol version TLS10 is not accepted by client preferences TLS12

AE Version: 6.0

Java Version: OpenJDK 11

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**Author:** ![degoliab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@degoliab](https://community.automationedge.com/u/degoliab)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2023, 5:53am UTC](https://community.automationedge.com/t/error-connecting-to-database/10336/2 "2023-08-02T05:53:12Z")

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Hi!

Follow the steps below.

- OpenJDK will be disabling TLS 1.0 and 1.1 availability by default in java.security file. Java applications using TLS to communicate will need to use TLS 1.2 or above to establish a connection.
- To re-enable the TLS 1.0 and 1.1 in OpenJDK, do the following steps:
- Edit java.security file from OpenJDK/conf/Security folder

Option 1 (preferred): First, ensure security.overridePropertiesFile value in the java.security file is set to true (this is usually the default value).

Then, take the following steps:

- Create a file named enableLegacyTLS.security
- In that file, add an entry for jdk.tls.disabledAlgorithms with the same contents as the jdk.tls.disabledAlgorithms property in java.security file.
- Remove TLSv1.0 and/or TLSv1.1 from the list on the enableLegacyTLS.security.
- Start your application with -Djava.security.properties=path/to/enableLegacyTLS.security

Option 2: You can edit this value in java.security file directly. Search for the property jdk.tls.disabledAlgorithms. For OpenJDK 11, its contents will be similar to:

jdk.tls.disabledAlgorithms=SSLv3, TLSv1, TLSv1.1, RC4, DES, MD5withRSA, DH keySize \< 1024, EC keySize \< 224, 3DES\_EDE\_CBC, anon, NULL,  
include jdk.disabled.namedCurves

By removing the TLSv1.1 and/or TLSv1 entries, you can re-establish those versions back to the list of usable versions within the JDK.