'Page Not Found' when clicking on Demonstration Space & others

Question

I've performed a brand new, clean install of Confluence 4.1.2 and it breaks immediately when I click on the link to view Demonstration Space.

The link in question is http://localhost:8090/display/ds which gets redirected to http://localhost:8090/spaces where I'm presented with a 'Page Not Found' page.

I've attached the log file, as I have absolutely no clue why it is doing this. It seems to break during execution of code in the Spaces Directory Plugin, and seems to also be complaining about a missing session and lazy initialization that has failed.

If anyone can help with this, it would be very much appreciated.

Thanks, Ray.

(catalina.2012-02-15.log)

SarahA · Answer

Hallo Ray

Just checking the simplest solution, in case it's the right one... :)

Is it possible that your Confluence site doesn't include the Demonstration space? When you install Confluence, you can choose to include/exclude that space. The choice is offered during the Setup Wizard. If you chose "Production Installation" and then "Empty Site" (instead of "Example Site") then the Demonstration space is not installed.

The documentation has some screenshots that will help explain what I mean:

http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Setup+Guide#ConfluenceSetupGuide-6ProductionInstallationLoadContent

Cheers, Sarah

Ray Scott2 · Answer

Hi Andrew,

I should have remembered earlier to just use the first line of the Java Exception message to search Support. I've found the issue is already known and still unresolved, but it seems that if you don't choose the Demo data during the install, you can bypass the bug. So I just reinstalled choosing to go with an empty site. Thanks for your diligent help.

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-24282

Andrew Frayling · Answer

Hi Ray,

Tomcat would be the app server, but what database server are you using? The errors in the log file indicate something is going wrong when Confluence is trying to talk to your database.

Andrew.