I'm getting this error when starting Jira that Tomcat is misconfigured and that the server.xml file is missing parameters needed by Jira to handle requests that contain special characters. It pops us a message that includes the following URL on how to troubleshoot the issue: https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/changing-server-xml-to-handle-requests-with-special-characters-958453799.html I'm supposed to follow these steps to fix the issue: Solution * Go to /conf, and edit the server.xml file. * Find all connectors your application is using. Just search for Connector in the file, or look at the example below. You're interested only in connectors whose protocol is set to HTTP and HTTPS (not AJP). * Add relaxedPathChars="[]|" relaxedQueryChars="[]|{}^\`"<>" to the connector properties in server.xml. For example: <Connector port="8080" relaxedPathChars="[]|" rela I used the config.bat to change the settings to use only https and this is how my connector looks like: <Connector SSLEnabled="true" acceptCount="100" clientAuth="false" connectionTimeout="20000" disableUploadTimeout="true" enableLookups="false" keyAlias="te-50a7704f-9b69-4627-b12a-0c2c87a6c70f" keystoreFile="C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_221\lib\security\cacerts" keystorePass="changeit" keystoreType="JKS" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192" maxSpareThreads="75" maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" port="8443" protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol" scheme="https" secure="true" sslProtocol="TLS" relaxedPathChars="[]|" relaxedQueryChars="[]|{}^\`"<>" useBodyEncodingForURI="true"/> What am I missing?

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Setup: Tomcat is misconfigured

Ricardo Goncalves_yfbjkk

I'm getting this error when starting Jira that Tomcat is misconfigured and that the server.xml file is missing parameters needed by Jira to handle requests that contain special characters.

It pops us a message that includes the following URL on how to troubleshoot the issue: https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/changing-server-xml-to-handle-requests-with-special-characters-958453799.html

I'm supposed to follow these steps to fix the issue:

Solution

Go to <Jira-installation-directory>/conf, and edit the server.xml file.
Find all connectors your application is using. Just search for Connector in the file, or look at the example below. You're interested only in connectors whose protocol is set to HTTP and HTTPS (not AJP).
Add <span>relaxedPathChars="[]|" </span>relaxedQueryChars="[]|{}^\`"<>" to the connector properties in server.xml. For example:
```
<Connector port="8080" relaxedPathChars="[]|" rela
```

I used the config.bat to change the settings to use only https and this is how my connector looks like:

<Connector SSLEnabled="true" acceptCount="100" clientAuth="false" connectionTimeout="20000" disableUploadTimeout="true" enableLookups="false" keyAlias="te-50a7704f-9b69-4627-b12a-0c2c87a6c70f" keystoreFile="C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_221\lib\security\cacerts" keystorePass="changeit" keystoreType="JKS" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192" maxSpareThreads="75" maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" port="8443" protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol" scheme="https" secure="true" sslProtocol="TLS" relaxedPathChars="[]|" relaxedQueryChars="[]|{}^\`"<>" useBodyEncodingForURI="true"/></Service>

What am I missing?

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Ricardo Goncalves_yfbjkk

We got it to work using the following connector:

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Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

I suspect it's the characters in the relaxedQueryChars string - try shortening it to just "|" to start with, then adding the others back in one or two at a time to work out which ones fail. My Tomcat fails on the {} pair, as it's reading that as a non-existent variable (but I don't see this too often as I don't like punctuation in urls and usually actively disable it)

Ricardo Goncalves_yfbjkk

We got it to work using the following connector:

Muhammad Ramzan_Atlassian Certified Master_

Thank you , you saved my life

Chris Myers_1rzjwk

This helped, thank you.

Further, if you have configured SSL (with redirect), you'll need to locate both (or all) connector tags in config.xml and ensure that they have these attributes:

relaxedPathChars="[]|" relaxedQueryChars="[]|{}^&#x5c;&#x60;&quot;&lt;&gt;"

I reiterate this because I found one of the two tucked waaay at the end of the file.

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