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cannot get confluence to run on AWS EC2 Ubuntu 14.04

kimsia sim

After I attempted to install the confluence 5.8.6,

I followed mainly the steps in https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Installing+Confluence+on+Linux+from+Archive+File#InstallingConfluenceonLinuxfromArchiveFile-2.InstallJava and https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Start+Confluence+Automatically+on+Linux

I used `confluence` as user and run `. confluence-start.sh` inside `/usr/local/confluence/current/bin/`

Almost immediately, I get the following message and my user account got switched out of `confluence` and back into `ubuntu`

confluence@ip-xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/usr/local/confluence/current/bin$ . start-confluence.sh

To run Confluence in the foreground, start the server with start-confluence.sh -fg
executing as current user
If you encounter issues starting up Confluence, please see the Installation guide at http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Installation+Guide

Server startup logs are located in /usr/local/confluence/current/logs/catalina.out
Using CATALINA_BASE: /usr/local/confluence/current
Using CATALINA_HOME: /usr/local/confluence/current
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/local/confluence/current/temp
Using JRE_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64
Using CLASSPATH: /usr/local/confluence/current/bin/bootstrap.jar:/usr/local/confluence/current/bin/tomcat-juli.jar
Using CATALINA_PID: /usr/local/confluence/current/work/catalina.pid
Tomcat started.
ubuntu@ip-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx:~$ sudo su confluence
confluence@xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx:/home/ubuntu$ cd /usr/local/confluence
confluence@ip-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx:/usr/local/confluence$ ls -la

I then tried ip address:8090. I get nothing.

Please advise.

**UPDATE**

I have switched to java 8. Same issue

confluence@ip-172-31-22-135:/usr/local/confluence/current/bin$ . start-confluence.sh

To run Confluence in the foreground, start the server with start-confluence.sh -fg
executing as current user
If you encounter issues starting up Confluence, please see the Installation guide at http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Installation+Guide

Server startup logs are located in /usr/local/confluence/current/logs/catalina.out
Using CATALINA_BASE: /usr/local/confluence/current
Using CATALINA_HOME: /usr/local/confluence/current
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/local/confluence/current/temp
Using JRE_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle
Using CLASSPATH: /usr/local/confluence/current/bin/bootstrap.jar:/usr/local/confluence/current/bin/tomcat-juli.jar
Using CATALINA_PID: /usr/local/confluence/current/work/catalina.pid
Existing PID file found during start.
Removing/clearing stale PID file.
Tomcat started.

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Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

What does the atlassian-confluence.log file say is going wrong?

rrudnicki

Hi Kimsia,

Tomcat started.

Your Tomcat looks running fine, so probably your error messages will be on <confluence-data>/logs/atlassian-confluence.log. So, please try the following:

1 - Stop Confluence

2 - Start Confluence

3 - Watch the logs:

tail -f &lt;confluence-data&gt;/logs/atlassian.log

Lastly, can you confirm what are you facing when you try to access Confluence? I mean, is an error message, a blank page?

Regards,

Renato Rudnicki

kimsia sim

where can i find this atlassian-confluence.log?

kimsia sim

Right after I start confluence, the Ubuntu user will suddenly switch from confluence to ubuntu. Not sure if this is intentional. My confluence data is the folder /usr/local/confluence/data. There is nothing inside. Not even a logs folder.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

"the Ubuntu user will suddenly switch from confluence to ubuntu" - this is nonsense without the context. Do you mean you are using an account by logging in as another person first and using "exit" to go back to the original? That a process is running and spawns another one running under a different user? Or is the session being forcibly killed by another process you've set up to deliberately kill it? Anyway... If your "cofluence home"/logs is empty, then Confluence is not starting at all. Tomcat is unable to get the application loaded. Have a look at /usr/local/confluence/current/logs/catalina.out - this should have an error message in it to tell you why it can't begin to start Confluence.

rrudnicki

Can you confirm if you have setup confluence home variable properly? Please take a look on <confluence-data> confluence/WEB-INF/classes/confluence-init.properties

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