Problem getting self-hosted server installed

[Jon Tandy]

We had Confluence running, but had to reinstall on a new EC2 instance of AWS. I tried installing and got to the point of connecting to our existing SQL server, but it failed to connect.

After failing to get that accomplished, I chose one of the other options to do a local installation just to get the installation completed, and then go back and change to a real SQL server. But each of those options failed. Then I had no way to go back and retry.

Then I tried to uninstall and reinstall, so I could start over. After doing all that, nothing works. I am getting an error from the 'localhost' using browser. It goes to http://localhost/bootstrap/selectsetupstep.action  and the errors (in part):

A system error has occurred — our apologies!

Cause
com.atlassian.util.concurrent.LazyReference$InitializationException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Spring Application context has not been set
    at com.atlassian.util.concurrent.LazyReference.getInterruptibly(LazyReference.java:149)

caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Spring Application context has not been set
    at com.atlassian.spring.container.SpringContainerContext.getComponent(SpringContainerContext.java:48)

This is running on a Windows Server 2019 DataCenter, 64-bit.

[Edwin Kyalangalilwa]

Hi @Jon Tandy ,

Check under Confluence home directory and confirm that the application is pointing to a home directory.

For example:

C:\Program Files\Atlassian\Confluence\confluence\WEB-INF\classes\confluence-init.properties

will have an entry like:

confluence.home = E:\\ApplicationData\\Confluence