Expected Behaviour

I'm at the bash deployments/deploy.sh web prod step when an error is returned

Actual Behaviour

INFO: Initiating the build of the python deployment script...
INFO: Call stack for the definition of repository 'io_bazel_rules_appengine' which is a http_archive (rule definition at /home/kptaszynski/.cache/bazel/_bazel_kptaszynski/ab919c8017980a550c83bdfe4ab02a75/external/bazel_tools/tools/build_defs/repo/http.bzl:229:16):

• /home/kptaszynski/Loaner/WORKSPACE:311:1
  ERROR: An error occurred during the fetch of repository 'io_bazel_rules_appengine':
  java.io.IOException: Error downloading [https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_appengine/archive/0.0.9.tar.gz] to /home/kptaszynski/.cache/bazel/_bazel_kptaszynski/ab919c8017980a550c83bdfe4ab02a75/external/io_bazel_rules_appengine/0.0.9.tar.gz: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
  ERROR: error loading package '': Encountered error while reading extension file 'appengine/sdk.bzl': no such package '@io_bazel_rules_appengine//appengine': java.io.IOException: Error downloading [https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_appengine/archive/0.0.9.tar.gz] to /home/kptaszynski/.cache/bazel/_bazel_kptaszynski/ab919c8017980a550c83bdfe4ab02a75/external/io_bazel_rules_appengine/0.0.9.tar.gz: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
  ERROR: error loading package '': Encountered error while reading extension file 'appengine/sdk.bzl': no such package '@io_bazel_rules_appengine//appengine': java.io.IOException: Error downloading [https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_appengine/archive/0.0.9.tar.gz] to /home/kptaszynski/.cache/bazel/_bazel_kptaszynski/ab919c8017980a550c83bdfe4ab02a75/external/io_bazel_rules_appengine/0.0.9.tar.gz: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
  INFO: Elapsed time: 14.288s
  INFO: 0 processes.
  FAILED: Build did NOT complete successfully (0 packages loaded)

I tried creating a .bazelrc file in my $HOME Directory with the lines

startup --host_jvm_args=-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=/etc/ssl/certs/java/cacerts
--host_jvm_args=-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword=changeit

No joy - error is still presented.

I'm running Ubunto 20.04.3 LTS on WSL2

I've been asked to "Chanel my Inner Developer" to roll out the Loaner app for a Pilot at my company. I cut my teeth on VB 6 and progressed to .NET but have very little experience in Linux.

Thanks

Ken Ptaszynski, PMP