confluence move server help

[richardmh]

I look after a community instance of confluence 3.1.1 old, yes, I know... but it's worked perfectly since dec 2009.  mssql db.  community licence.

I've been meaning to upgrade for ages but didn't find the time (I'm a volunteer, and I knew it might be difficult) but the crunch has now come:  It's on a virtual win2k3 server and the hosting company want to switch it off (for obvious reasons).

So I have a new win server 2016 datacenter, installed mssql Etc. and copied everything over from the old server.... and I've spent the last 5 days getting absolutely nowhere; failed to even get it to run in its original form before even thinking about an upgrade.

Before I have no hair left, I think the time has come to hire somebody to do this.

Can someone help me?  We have a week before the original server is shut down....

Thanks

Richard

ps.  It doesn't have to go to a new win server, it's just that I'm reasonably competent with the server admin and know nothing about linux, but if it could be got into a form which could be loaded into the latest docker image on linux then that would actually be a better long-term solution for our community.  

[Charlie Misonne]

Do you get anything useful in your logs?

If you want to hire someone you can look for Atlassian partners nearby on https://partnerdirectory.atlassian.com/

[richardmh]

Not really - this is the result of running startup.bat and localhost.<date>.log is zero bytes

Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM warning: ignoring option MaxPermSize=256m; support was removed in 8.0
Aug 07, 2019 12:24:48 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol init
INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
Aug 07, 2019 12:24:48 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 577 ms
Aug 07, 2019 12:24:48 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start
INFO: Starting service Tomcat-Standalone
Aug 07, 2019 12:24:48 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/6.0.14
2019-08-07 12:25:23,497 INFO [main] [com.atlassian.confluence.lifecycle] contextInitialized Starting Confluence 3.1.1 (build #1724)
2019-08-07 12:25:24,513 INFO [main] [atlassian.plugin.manager.DefaultPluginManager] init Initialising the plugin system
2019-08-07 12:25:24,716 INFO [main] [atlassian.plugin.manager.DefaultPluginManager] init Plugin system started in 0:00:00.203
2019-08-07 12:25:25,966 WARN [main] [atlassian.config.xml.AbstractDom4jXmlConfigurationPersister] saveDocumentAtomically Unable to move C:\apps\confluence\data\confluence.cfg.xml8169920552913312087tmp to C:\apps\confluence\data\confluence.cfg.xml. Falling back to non-atomic overwrite.
Aug 07, 2019 12:25:39 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Error listenerStart
Aug 07, 2019 12:25:39 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Context [] startup failed due to previous errors
log4j:ERROR LogMananger.repositorySelector was null likely due to error in class reloading, using NOPLoggerRepository.
Aug 07, 2019 12:25:40 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol start
INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
Aug 07, 2019 12:25:40 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 52410 ms

thanks

Richard