Fail unable to find or load org.atlassian.apache.startup.Bootstrap

[haytham_rauf]

Hello,

I am trying install confluence 8.9.1 on RHEL 8 in Azure. I downloaded the tar.gz file. unpacked it amd modified server.xml with all info for newly fresh installed postgres 15 which is up and running in the same VM. I then modified confleunce-init.properties with confluence_home pointing to different drectory than my confluence install directory which /opt/atlassian/confluence. The home pointing to /var/atlassian/application-data/confluence.

worth noting that at first i tried everything as root. directories owned by root and started confluence as root.

I then started confluence /opt/atlassian/confluence/bin/start-confluence.sh

from logs eveything looks good and at end it says confluence ready to serve.

Now when i go to the browser the browser does not bering up the setup wizard to configure confluence in the postgres. Instead it spins and then says this site can not be reached. I configured the confluence to listen and talk on port 80. the port verified to be open so no firewall issues. Selinux got disabled too. but still no setup wizard.

Then i read somewhere to not start it  as root. So i changed everything to be owned by user confluence in Linux. I then started confluence as user confluence. but it wont start saying unable to find or load org.atalssian.apache.startup.Bootsrap.

I tried adding all kind of lib and bin to the path and LD_LIBRARY_PATH but same error unable to find or load org.atlassian.apache.startup.Bootstrap

Any help where i go from here

[haytham_rauf]

sorry correction about the Error message that shows up in catalina.out after I start Confluence

Coundn't find or load class org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap

thanks!