Server.xml

[Martn Andersson]

EDIT: I opened my eyes, this is fixed now..

Hello!

Im getting errors in the log file named Catalina***.txt located in ..\Confluence\logs

20-May-2019 11:32:51.653 WARNING [main] org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.SetPropertiesRule.begin Match [Server] failed to set property [debug] to [0]
20-May-2019 11:32:51.669 SEVERE [main] org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.fatalError Parse fatal error at line [9] column [11]
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; systemId: file:/C:/Program%20Files/Atlassian/Confluence/conf/server.xml; lineNumber: 9; columnNumber: 11; The string "--" is not permitted within comments.
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:203)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:177)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:400)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:327)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLScanner.reportFatalError(XMLScanner.java:1472)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLScanner.scanComment(XMLScanner.java:819)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanComment(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1034)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDriver.next(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:2982)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:602)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:505)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:842)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:771)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:141)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1213)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(SAXParserImpl.java:643)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1431)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:566)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:607)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.load(Bootstrap.java:306)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:491)

20-May-2019 11:32:51.669 WARNING [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load Unable to load server configuration from [C:\Program Files\Atlassian\Confluence\conf\server.xml]
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; systemId: file:/C:/Program%20Files/Atlassian/Confluence/conf/server.xml; lineNumber: 9; columnNumber: 11; The string "--" is not permitted within comments.
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1239)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(SAXParserImpl.java:643)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1431)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:566)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:607)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.load(Bootstrap.java:306)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:491)

20-May-2019 11:32:51.669 SEVERE [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start Cannot start server, server instance is not configured

[Chandrakanth Bhat · Accepted solution]

Looks like your server.xml has corrupt entry. Check the comments in the server.xml & remove if you have -- string inside a comment section.

Regards,

Chandru 

[Martn Andersson]

Yes, i read the log files again and saw that.

It got fixed when i removed the " -- "