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ApplicationPermissionException: Forbidden (403) Encountered a "403 - Forbidden" error while loading

sathishyellanty

we have upgraded the confluence version to 7.5 and during this process we had to force migrate on to a new server due to some hard ware issues.

After the migration we are not able to authenticate confluence with jira. We are getting an error

" com.atlassian.crowd.exception.ApplicationPermissionException: Forbidden (403) Encountered a "403 - Forbidden" error while loading this page. client.forbidden.exception Go to JIRA home".

On Googling , i saw a document saying to create an application in the jira server under user management > jira user servers. how ever in the jira i'm not able to find the option "JIRA User Server" . Am i missing some thing here. This was working fine before upgrade.

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Andy Heinzer

It sounds like you're using Jira Server to host a user server for Confluence. Since you had to change servers for this upgrade of Confluence, what likely happened is that this new server has a different IP address than the old one.

As a result, the new server cannot communicate with Jira in order to make sure these users can authenticate in Confluence. If that is the case, then the easiest solution is to change the IP of the new confluence server to be the address of the old server and restart. That should fix this.

If for some reason you can't do this, then you will likely need to follow the steps in Restore Passwords To Recover Admin User Rights in order to login with a local confluence admin account first. You would need to do this to be able to reconfigure Confluence to connect to your Jira instance.

Once that is done, you might then also need to update Jira to tell it the new IP address of this new Confluence instance. Steps to do that are in Allowing connections to JIRA for user management.

unknown

Hello Andrew,

Thank you for the reply. I have solved the issue with the help for the following link, seems like it is a bug in Jira.

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/How-do-I-enable-JIRA-User-Server/qaq-p/423016

http://localhost:8080/secure/admin/ConfigureCrowdServer.jspa using this link directly I was able to add the application and configured the confluence.

//Sathish

Andy Heinzer

Glad to hear that you found a solution. However I don't think that the bug you referenced is the actual cause in this situation. That bug was in reference to functional differences after migrating from Jira Cloud to Jira Server. Also, that bug was fixed over 3 years ago.

In this case, since the IP address would have likely changed for the confluence instance, that seems like the most likely cause here.

You should still be able to navigate within Jira by going to Cog Icon -> User Management -> Jira user server to access this. Alternatively, you can also press the 'G' key twice in order to bring up a shortcut menu where you can then search for the "Jira user server" as another way to reach this.

If you are not seeing this menu item, and you are logged into Jira as a system administrator, then I would be interested to learn more about your Jira instance to understand why that menu item might not be appearing there. If that is the case, please let me know what version of Jira this is as well.

Regards,
Andy

Ikhoon_Chon

Hello Andrew,

I'm also struggling with the same problem. The worse thing is, the way you mentioned - Restore Passwords To Recover Admin User Rights - is also not working.

I have modified setenv.sh as below and restart confluence (I even restarted Jira in advance just for sure)

...
CATALINA_OPTS="-Dconfluence.context.path=${CONFLUENCE_CONTEXT_PATH} ${CATALINA_OPTS}"
CATALINA_OPTS="-Datlassian.recovery.password=admin ${CATALINA_OPTS}"

export CATALINA_OPTS

But I still cannot login with recovery_admin - only the error message saying "Sorry, an error occurred trying to log you in. Please try again."

Could you give me any advice on this?

Regards,

Ikhoon

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