Check your company’s Confluence, SharePoint, or IT Wiki. Search for "R2R Root CA - PEM and CRT files."

keytool -import -trustcacerts -alias r2r_root -file r2r-root.crt -keystore $JAVA_HOME/lib/security/cacerts

If your organization has recently moved to a "R2R" (Road to Revenue or internal security architecture) environment, or if you are setting up internal TLS inspection, you have likely heard the phrase: "You need to download the Team R2R Root Certificate."

October 12, 2023 | Reading Time: 4 minutes

Without this specific Root CA installed on your machine, you will face a barrage of SSL errors, broken APIs, and "Your connection is not private" warnings. Here is exactly how to download, install, and trust the R2R certificate correctly. The "R2R" Root is typically an internal Certificate Authority (CA) used by security teams to perform SSL/TLS Decryption (often called SSL Interception). While R2R often stands for "Release to Repository" or "Ready to Run" in engineering, within security contexts, it is frequently the naming convention for a team managing proxy infrastructure (e.g., Zscaler, Netskope, or a private Microsoft PKI).

Most R2R teams host a captive portal. Navigate to http://r2r-ca.internal or https://proxy.r2r.company.com (using HTTP, not HTTPS, to avoid the chicken-and-egg certificate error).

export NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS=/path/to/r2r-root.crt Error: "ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID" Fix: You installed the wrong store. Move the cert to "Trusted Root Certification Authorities," not "Intermediate."