Cant login to new CloudFoundry AWS deployment

Question

I just installed CloudFoundry on AWS using the docs here.

However, now when i try to login to cloundfoundry i get the following:

root@cf-installer:~/releases# cf login -a api.mydomain.com -u admin -p the_admin_pw
API endpoint: api.mydomain.com
FAILED
Invalid SSL Cert for api.mydomain.com
TIP: Use 'cf api --skip-ssl-validation' to continue with an insecure API endpoint

So I did as the error msg told me to:

root@cf-installer:~/releases# cf api --skip-ssl-validation https://api.mydomain.com
Setting api endpoint to https://api.mydomain.com...
OK

API endpoint: https://api.mydomain.com (API version: 2.4.0)
Not logged in. Use 'cf login' to log in.

But even then I keep getting this:

root@cf-installer:~/releases# cf login -a api.mydomain.com -u admin -p the_admin_pw
API endpoint: api.mydomain.com
FAILED
Invalid SSL Cert for api.mydomain.com
TIP: Use 'cf api --skip-ssl-validation' to continue with an insecure API endpoint

What am i doing wrong?

Update

I tried Scott's method and got this:

root@cf-installer:~# cf login --skip-ssl-validation -a https://api.mydomain.com -u    admin -p the_admin_pw
API endpoint: https://api.mydomain.com
Authenticating...
Server error, status code: 500, error code: , message:

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Answer 1

Either do:

$ cf api --skip-ssl-validation https://api.mydomain.com
$ cf login -u admin -p the_admin_pw

or

$ cf login --skip-ssl-validation -a https://api.mydomain.com -u admin -p the_admin_pw