Setup: Tomcat is misconfigured

[Ryan_Smith]

Hello, 

I recently added an SSL certificate to our Jira setup. Since trying to startup the server after adding it, i've been getting the message "The server.xml file is missing parameters needed by Jira to handle requests that contain special characters."

I confirmed that in the server.xml file there is the "relaxedPathChars="[]|" relaxedQueryChars="[]|{}^\`"<>" to the connector properties in server.xml. For example:" where I believe it should be included and have. 

After taking a look at the server.xml file, is there anything you notice that I should correct? I can upload log files as well, just let me know which you'd need. 

Server.xml file is: 

q<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!--
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--><Server port="8005" shutdown="SHUTDOWN">
<Listener className="org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener"/>
<Listener SSLEngine="on" className="org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener"/>
<Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.JreMemoryLeakPreventionListener"/>
<Listener className="org.apache.catalina.mbeans.GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener"/>
<Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.ThreadLocalLeakPreventionListener"/>

<Service name="Catalina">
<!--
==============================================================================================================
DEFAULT - Direct connector with no proxy for unproxied access to Jira.

If using a http/https proxy, comment out this connector.
==============================================================================================================
-->

<!-- Relaxing chars because of JRASERVER-67974 -->

<!--
==============================================================================================================
HTTP - Proxying Jira via Apache or Nginx over HTTP

If you're proxying traffic to Jira over HTTP, uncomment the below connector and comment out the others.
Ensure the proxyName and proxyPort are updated with the appropriate information if necessary as per the docs.

See the following for more information:

Apache - https://confluence.atlassian.com/x/4xQLM
nginx - https://confluence.atlassian.com/x/DAFmGQ
==============================================================================================================
-->

<!--
<Connector port="8067" relaxedPathChars="[]|" relaxedQueryChars="[]|{}^&#x5c;&#x60;&quot;&lt;&gt;"
maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" connectionTimeout="20000" enableLookups="false"
maxHttpHeaderSize="8192" protocol="HTTP/1.1" useBodyEncodingForURI="true" redirectPort="8443"
acceptCount="100" disableUploadTimeout="true" bindOnInit="false" scheme="https"
proxyName="<subdomain>.<domain>.com" proxyPort="80"/>

-->
<!--
==============================================================================================================
HTTPS - Proxying Jira via Apache or Nginx over HTTPS

If you're proxying traffic to Jira over HTTPS, uncomment the below connector and comment out the others.
Ensure the proxyName and proxyPort are updated with the appropriate information if necessary as per the docs.

See the following for more information:

Apache - https://confluence.atlassian.com/x/PTT3MQ
nginx - https://confluence.atlassian.com/x/DAFmGQ
==============================================================================================================
-->

<!--
<Connector port="8067" relaxedPathChars="[]|" relaxedQueryChars="[]|{}^&#x5c;&#x60;&quot;&lt;&gt;"
maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" connectionTimeout="20000" enableLookups="false"
maxHttpHeaderSize="8192" protocol="HTTP/1.1" useBodyEncodingForURI="true" redirectPort="8443"
acceptCount="100" disableUploadTimeout="true" bindOnInit="false" secure="true" scheme="https"
proxyName="<subdomain>.<domain>.com" proxyPort="443"/>
-->

<!--
==============================================================================================================
AJP - Proxying Jira via Apache over HTTP or HTTPS

If you're proxying traffic to Jira using the AJP protocol, uncomment the following connector line
See the following for more information:

Apache - https://confluence.atlassian.com/x/QiJ9MQ
==============================================================================================================
-->

<!--
<Connector port="8009" URIEncoding="UTF-8" enableLookups="false" protocol="AJP/1.3"/>
-->

<Engine defaultHost="localhost" name="Catalina">
<Host appBase="webapps" autoDeploy="true" name="localhost" unpackWARs="true">

<Context docBase="${catalina.home}/atlassian-jira" path="" reloadable="false" useHttpOnly="true">
<Resource auth="Container" factory="org.objectweb.jotm.UserTransactionFactory" jotm.timeout="60" name="UserTransaction" type="javax.transaction.UserTransaction"/>
<Manager pathname=""/>
<JarScanner scanManifest="false"/>
<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.StuckThreadDetectionValve" threshold="120"/>
</Context>

</Host>
<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" pattern="%a %{jira.request.id}r %{jira.request.username}r %t &quot;%m %U%q %H&quot; %s %b %D &quot;%{Referer}i&quot; &quot;%{User-Agent}i&quot; &quot;%{jira.request.assession.id}r&quot;"/>
</Engine>
<Connector SSLEnabled="true" acceptCount="100" clientAuth="false" connectionTimeout="20000" disableUploadTimeout="true" enableLookups="false" keyAlias="jira" keystoreFile="C:\Program Files\Atlassian\Jira\jira.jks" keystorePass="password" keystoreType="JKS" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192" maxSpareThreads="75" maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" port="8067" protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol" scheme="https" secure="true" sslProtocol="TLS" useBodyEncodingForURI="true"/><Connector acceptCount="100" connectionTimeout="20000" disableUploadTimeout="true" enableLookups="false" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192" maxSpareThreads="75" maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" port="8066" protocol="HTTP/1.1" redirectPort="8067" useBodyEncodingForURI="true"/></Service>
</Server>

[Andy Heinzer]

Hi Ryan,

Sorry to hear about this problem.  From looking at your server.xml, it appears that none of your <Connector> tags are uncommented.  All of these appear to be encapsulated with the

'<!--' before and '-->' after them.  In an XML file of this nature, that <!-- tag ignores these connectors entirely.  For all Jira server.xml files I would expect that there is at least one Connector tag in use (and not being ignored) when Jira starts up. Try changing your

<!--
<Connector port="8067" relaxedPathChars="[]|" relaxedQueryChars="[]|{}^&#x5c;&#x60;&quot;&lt;&gt;" maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" connectionTimeout="20000" enableLookups="false" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192" protocol="HTTP/1.1" useBodyEncodingForURI="true" redirectPort="8443" acceptCount="100" disableUploadTimeout="true" bindOnInit="false" secure="true" scheme="https" proxyName="<subdomain>.<domain>.com" proxyPort="443"/>
-->

into this:

<Connector port="8067" relaxedPathChars="[]|" relaxedQueryChars="[]|{}^&#x5c;&#x60;&quot;&lt;&gt;" maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" connectionTimeout="20000" enableLookups="false" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192" protocol="HTTP/1.1" useBodyEncodingForURI="true" redirectPort="8443" acceptCount="100" disableUploadTimeout="true" bindOnInit="false" secure="true" scheme="https" proxyName="<subdomain>.<domain>.com" proxyPort="443"/>

If I'm right, then you just need to remove that <!-- tag and the --> from the port connector you want Jira's tomcat to listen on, the save that server.xml file, and attempt to start Jira again here.

If that doesn't solve this, then I would be interested to see what the logs in Jira say when starting up.  For example, the $JIRAINSTALL/logs/catalina.out file will contain some diagnostic startup info that should help here to figure out why Jira is not able to start up here.

Let me know if this helps or not.

Andy