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I have a Confluence setup with lots of data uploaded and its important to retain the server

sahanajsj

Actually having a confluence setup which was working fine earlier with lot of data, and later stopped working with the issues.

When start Confluence, noticing the below error:

@Confluence:/opt/atlassian/confluence/bin$ sudo ./start-confluence.sh -fg

What this error means and how to resolve the below error. It helps to troubleshoot. Any suggestion are welcome.

HTTP Status 500 - java.lang.IllegalStateException: Spring Application context has not been set

type Exception report

message java.lang.IllegalStateException: Spring Application context has not been set

description The server encountered an internal error that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception

com.atlassian.util.concurrent.LazyReference$InitializationException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Spring Application context has not been set

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Sid_kvhzt3

Hi @sahanajsj ,

This error is likely to be a permission issue. Make sure you apply the correct permissions to the sub-folders as well of your home-directory and install-folder. (read and write permissions are to be given).

If that doesn't solve the issue, post the logs

Sid_kvhzt3

this KB might help you - https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/confluence-does-not-start-due-to-spring-application-context-has-not-been-set-218278311.html

Kiran Panduga {Appfire}

Hi @sahanajsj ,

There are many reasons one see this error message while starting the Confluence.

I would recommend to review the below Atlassian KB article which list out the reason for receiving the error

Spring Application context has not been set

https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/confluence-does-not-start-due-to-spring-application-context-has-not-been-set-218278311.html

if you are still noticing the issue, share the complete error message log for additional review.

Thanks,

Kiran.

sahanajsj

Thank you both for your suggestions.

Actually, I tried changing the ownership permissions of my "confluence" user. When running the confluence start/stop commands, still requires sudo permission. Please help, what to do now - I'm new to confluence setup. (trying to troubleshoot the existing setup, Installation and configuration setup has done by another engineer earlier)

Start Confluence:

After starting Confluence, Im getting setupstart.action page as below:

sahanajsj

I used these commands to change the permissions:

$ sudo chown -R confluence.confluence /var/atlassian/application-data/confluence

$ sudo chown -R confluence.confluence /opt/atlassian/confluence

$ sudo chmod -R u=rwx,go-rwx /var/atlassian/application-data/confluence

$ sudo chmod -R u=rwx,go-rwx /opt/atlassian/confluence

Kiran Panduga {Appfire}

Hi @sahanajsj ,

setupstart.action page indicates that the Confluence has started, now you just need to complete the installation steps and configure your database schema

After which you should be able to login and access the Confluence instance.

Thanks,

Kiran.

Sid_kvhzt3

@sahanajsj ,

From the above replies I see all your configurations are fine.

step 1 - Do you have all you data backed up? If yes try to create a new database with and restore the data.

Try finishing this installation with empty database, once done try to point to the restored Db and restart the application. This should get all the previous data.

Let me know if that helps

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