Thanks for the response! As instructed by the init file I pasted the full JSON object from the app credential screen, so it looked something like:

api { 
    web_server: domain
    api_server: domain:8008
    credentials {
        "access_key" = "xxx"
        "secret_key"  = "xxx"
    }
}

As an update, to get my team up and running I redid the server with everything except for the SSL, and it worked with no issues. But I'd still like to try to get SSL configured for obvious reasons so I appreciate the help!