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Crowd 2.7.0 crashes when running behind Apache mod_proxy with SSL

Christian Schlaefcke
Christian Schlaefcke Sep 25, 2013

Hi,

I just upgraded to crowd 2.7.0 and encounter a strange problem since that.

When I start crowd everything looks fine. When I access the crowd web interface I can log in and browse the different sections (applications, directories, etc.). When I enter the details of a certain section (e.g. the crowd-application in the applications section) the browser requests hangs and ends up in a "502 Proxy Error".

The logs are quite noiseless about this:

*********************************************************************************************
*
*  You can now use the Crowd server by visiting https://atlasapps.myhost.net/crowd
*
*********************************************************************************************

2013-09-26 17:11:15,105 localhost-startStop-1 INFO [ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/crowd]] org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.UrlRewriteFilter INFO: loaded (conf ok)

==> /opt/atlassian/data/crowd/logs/atlassian-crowd.log <==
2013-09-26 17:11:15,105 localhost-startStop-1 INFO [ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/crowd]] org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.UrlRewriteFilter INFO: loaded (conf ok)

==> /opt/atlassian/inst/crowd/apache-tomcat/logs/catalina.2013-09-26.log <==
Sep 26, 2013 5:11:15 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory
INFO: Deploying web application directory /opt/atlassian/inst/crowd-2.7.0/apache-tomcat/webapps/ROOT

==> /opt/atlassian/inst/crowd/apache-tomcat/logs/catalina.out <==
Sep 26, 2013 5:11:15 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory
INFO: Deploying web application directory /opt/atlassian/inst/crowd-2.7.0/apache-tomcat/webapps/ROOT

==> /opt/atlassian/inst/crowd/apache-tomcat/logs/catalina.2013-09-26.log <==
Sep 26, 2013 5:11:15 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol start
INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-8095"]

==> /opt/atlassian/inst/crowd/apache-tomcat/logs/catalina.out <==
Sep 26, 2013 5:11:15 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol start
INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-8095"]

==> /opt/atlassian/inst/crowd/apache-tomcat/logs/catalina.2013-09-26.log <==
Sep 26, 2013 5:11:15 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 45471 ms

==> /opt/atlassian/inst/crowd/apache-tomcat/logs/catalina.out <==
Sep 26, 2013 5:11:15 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 45471 ms
2013-09-26 17:12:01,242 http-bio-8095-exec-2 INFO [service.soap.client.SecurityServerClientImpl] Existing application token is null, authenticating ...

==> /opt/atlassian/data/crowd/logs/atlassian-crowd.log <==
2013-09-26 17:12:01,242 http-bio-8095-exec-2 INFO [service.soap.client.SecurityServerClientImpl] Existing application token is null, authenticating ...

==> /opt/atlassian/inst/crowd/apache-tomcat/logs/catalina.out <==
2013-09-26 17:12:01,414 http-bio-8095-exec-5 INFO [ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/crowd]] Initializing Spring FrameworkServlet 'xfire'

==> /opt/atlassian/data/crowd/logs/atlassian-crowd.log <==
2013-09-26 17:12:01,414 http-bio-8095-exec-5 INFO [ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/crowd]] Initializing Spring FrameworkServlet 'xfire'

==> /opt/atlassian/inst/crowd/apache-tomcat/logs/catalina.out <==
2013-09-26 17:12:01,482 http-bio-8095-exec-5 WARN [beans.factory.config.CustomEditorConfigurer] Passing PropertyEditor instances into CustomEditorConfigurer is deprecated: use PropertyEditorRegistrars or PropertyEditor class names instead. Offending key [org.codehaus.xfire.service.ServiceFactory; offending editor instance: org.codehaus.xfire.spring.editors.ServiceFactoryEditor@33279683

==> /opt/atlassian/data/crowd/logs/atlassian-crowd.log <==
2013-09-26 17:12:01,482 http-bio-8095-exec-5 WARN [beans.factory.config.CustomEditorConfigurer] Passing PropertyEditor instances into CustomEditorConfigurer is deprecated: use PropertyEditorRegistrars or PropertyEditor class names instead. Offending key [org.codehaus.xfire.service.ServiceFactory; offending editor instance: org.codehaus.xfire.spring.editors.ServiceFactoryEditor@33279683

==> /opt/atlassian/inst/crowd/apache-tomcat/logs/catalina.out <==
2013-09-26 17:12:02,996 http-bio-8095-exec-2 INFO [service.soap.client.SecurityServerClientImpl] Created new application token: nSk4ZyZKM0uQN2dMQr7NCg00

==> /opt/atlassian/data/crowd/logs/atlassian-crowd.log <==
2013-09-26 17:12:02,996 http-bio-8095-exec-2 INFO [service.soap.client.SecurityServerClientImpl] Created new application token: nSk4ZyZKM0uQN2dMQr7NCg00

==> /opt/atlassian/inst/crowd/apache-tomcat/logs/catalina.out <==
2013-09-26 17:13:36,950 http-bio-8095-exec-22 ERROR [xfire.transport.http.HttpChannel] Server returned error code = 502 for URI : https://atlasapps.myhost.net/crowd/services/SecurityServer. Check server logs for details

==> /opt/atlassian/data/crowd/logs/atlassian-crowd.log <==
2013-09-26 17:13:36,950 http-bio-8095-exec-22 ERROR [xfire.transport.http.HttpChannel] Server returned error code = 502 for URI : https://atlasapps.myhost.net/crowd/services/SecurityServer. Check server logs for details

==> /opt/atlassian/inst/crowd/apache-tomcat/logs/catalina.out <==
2013-09-26 17:13:36,953 http-bio-8095-exec-10 ERROR [xfire.transport.http.HttpChannel] Server returned error code = 502 for URI : https://atlasapps.myhost.net/crowd/services/SecurityServer. Check server logs for details

==> /opt/atlassian/data/crowd/logs/atlassian-crowd.log <==
2013-09-26 17:13:36,953 http-bio-8095-exec-10 ERROR [xfire.transport.http.HttpChannel] Server returned error code = 502 for URI : https://atlasapps.myhost.net/crowd/services/SecurityServer. Check server logs for details

==> /opt/atlassian/inst/crowd/apache-tomcat/logs/catalina.out <==
2013-09-26 17:13:38,921 http-bio-8095-exec-16 ERROR [xfire.transport.http.HttpChannel] Server returned error code = 502 for URI : https://atlasapps.myhost.net/crowd/services/SecurityServer. Check server logs for details

==> /opt/atlassian/data/crowd/logs/atlassian-crowd.log <==
2013-09-26 17:13:38,921 http-bio-8095-exec-16 ERROR [xfire.transport.http.HttpChannel] Server returned error code = 502 for URI : https://atlasapps.myhost.net/crowd/services/SecurityServer. Check server logs for details

I already searched at the available Atlassian resources and google indeed - unfortunately without success :-(

Any help would be very appreciated!

Regards,

Christian

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Jobin Kuruvilla [Go2Group]
Jobin Kuruvilla [Go2Group] Community Champion Oct 26, 2013

There are some known issues with Crowd 2.7 when tokens are stored in database. See https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CWD-3697 and related tickets.

The workaround is to store them in memory. See https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CROWD/Session+Configuration#SessionConfiguration-token

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