Jira login screen does not appear

[seanjmc]

Hi,

I changed my port to 80 as suggested here and rebooted the server.  When I tried to log back in nothing happened.

52.169.92.9 refused to connect.

Try:

• Checking the connection
• Checking the proxy and the firewall

ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED

I changed server.xml back to 8080 and tried again.  I started jira manually as follows :

jira@jira:/opt/atlassian/jira/bin$ sudo ./start-jira.sh

To run JIRA in the foreground, start the server with start-jira.sh -fg
executing using dedicated user: jira2
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Atlassian JIRA
Version : 7.2.4


If you encounter issues starting or stopping JIRA, please see the Troubleshooting guide at http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Installation+Troubleshooting+Guide


Server startup logs are located in /opt/atlassian/jira/logs/catalina.out
Using CATALINA_BASE: /opt/atlassian/jira
Using CATALINA_HOME: /opt/atlassian/jira
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /opt/atlassian/jira/temp
Using JRE_HOME: /opt/atlassian/jira/jre/
Using CLASSPATH: /opt/atlassian/jira/bin/bootstrap.jar:/opt/atlassian/jira/bin/tomcat-juli.jar
Using CATALINA_PID: /opt/atlassian/jira/work/catalina.pid
Existing PID file found during start.
Removing/clearing stale PID file.
Tomcat started.

Still nothing happened.  Our jira server is down, any ideas how I can get it back up?

catalina.out reveals the following:

03-Sep-2017 15:12:10.137 WARNING [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load Catalina.start using conf/server.xml: The element type "Host" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "</Host>".
03-Sep-2017 15:12:10.138 SEVERE [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start Cannot start server. Server instance is not configured.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

First line of your catalina.out is the answer - your server.xml is invalid and unreadable.  The <host> element is terminated incorrectly.  Try opening it with an editor that knows how to highlight  xml (and hence see its structure and errors)

[seanjmc]

Thanks Nic,

There was a </context> without a previous <context>, I must have deleted it by mistake but putting it back in did not fix.  Now I get no error but still the site will not start.

Our server.xml is as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!--
 ====================================================================================

Atlassian JIRA Standalone Edition Tomcat Configuration.


 See the following for more information

http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Configuring+JIRA+Standalone

====================================================================================
 -->
<!--
 Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
 contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
 this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
 The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
 the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 limitations under the License.
-->
<Server port="8005" shutdown="SHUTDOWN">
 <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener" />
 <!-- Security listener. Documentation at /docs/config/listeners.html
 <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityListener" />
 -->
 <!--APR library loader. Documentation at /docs/apr.html -->
 <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener" SSLEngine="on" />
 <!-- Prevent memory leaks due to use of particular java/javax APIs-->
 <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.JreMemoryLeakPreventionListener" />
 <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.mbeans.GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener" />
 <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.ThreadLocalLeakPreventionListener" />

<!-- Global JNDI resources
 Documentation at /docs/jndi-resources-howto.html
 -->

<!-- A "Service" is a collection of one or more "Connectors" that share
 a single "Container" Note: A "Service" is not itself a "Container",
 so you may not define subcomponents such as "Valves" at this level.
 Documentation at /docs/config/service.html
 -->
 <Service name="Catalina">

<Connector port="8080"
 
 maxThreads="150"
 minSpareThreads="25"
 connectionTimeout="20000"

enableLookups="false"
 maxHttpHeaderSize="8192"
 protocol="HTTP/1.1"
 useBodyEncodingForURI="true"
 redirectPort="8443"
 acceptCount="100"
 disableUploadTimeout="true"/>

<!--
 ====================================================================================

For full steps on running JIRA over SSL or HTTPS for production and testing, see:
 http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Running+JIRA+over+SSL+or+HTTPS
 and
 http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.0-doc/ssl-howto.html

A quicker method can be found below, which we recommend only for evaluation and demonstration:

* Uncomment the Connector below
 * Execute:
 %JAVA_HOME%\bin\keytool -genkey -alias tomcat -keyalg RSA (Windows)

 JAVA_HOME/bin/keytool -genkey -alias tomcat -keyalg RSA (Unix)

 with a password value of "changeit" for both the certificate and the keystore itself.
 * If you are on JDK1.3 or earlier, download and install JSSE 1.0.2 or later, and put the JAR files into "$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/ext"
 * Restart and visit https://localhost:8443/

====================================================================================
 -->
 <!--
 <Connector port="8443" protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol"
 maxHttpHeaderSize="8192" SSLEnabled="true"
 maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25"
 enableLookups="false" disableUploadTimeout="true"
 acceptCount="100" scheme="https" secure="true"
 clientAuth="false" sslProtocol="TLS" useBodyEncodingForURI="true"/>
 -->


 <!--
 ====================================================================================

If you have Apache AJP Connector (mod_ajp) as a proxy in front of JIRA you should uncomment the following connector configuration line

See the following for more information :

http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Configuring+Apache+Reverse+Proxy+Using+the+AJP+Protocol

====================================================================================
 -->

<!--
 <Connector port="8009" redirectPort="8443" enableLookups="false" protocol="AJP/1.3" URIEncoding="UTF-8"/>
 -->

<Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="localhost">
 <Host name="localhost" appBase="webapps" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true">

<Context path="" docBase="${catalina.home}/atlassian-jira" reloadable="false" useHttpOnly="true">
 <Resource name="mail/JiraMailServer"
 auth="Container"
 type="javax.mail.Session"
 mail.smtp.host="localhost"
 mail.smtp.port="25"
 mail.transport.protocol="smtp"
 />

</Context>

<!--
 ====================================================================================

Note, you no longer configure your database driver or connection parameters here.
 These are configured through the UI during application setup.

====================================================================================
 -->
 <Context>
 <Resource name="UserTransaction" auth="Container" type="javax.transaction.UserTransaction"
 factory="org.objectweb.jotm.UserTransactionFactory" jotm.timeout="60"/>
 <Manager pathname=""/>
 </Context>

</Host>

<!--
 ====================================================================================

Access Logging.

This should produce access_log.<date> files in the 'logs' directory.

The output access log lies has the following fields :

IP Request_Id User Timestamp "HTTP_Method URL Protocol_Version" HTTP_Status_Code ResponseSize_in_Bytes RequestTime_In_Millis Referer User_Agent ASESSIONID

eg :

192.168.3.238 1243466536012x12x1 admin [28/May/2009:09:22:17 +1000] "GET /jira/secure/admin/jira/IndexProgress.jspa?taskId=1 HTTP/1.1" 200 24267 1070 "http://carltondraught.sydney.atlassian.com:8090/jira/secure/admin/jira/IndexAdmin.jspa" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042523 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Firefox/3.0.10" "C2C99B632EE0F41E90F8EF7A201F6A78"

NOTES:

The RequestId is a millis_since_epoch plus request number plus number of concurrent users

The Request time is in milliseconds

The ASESSIONID is an hash of the JSESSIONID and hence is safe to publish within logs. A session cannot be reconstructed from it.

See http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/valve.html for more information on Tomcat Access Log Valves

====================================================================================

-->
 <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve"
 pattern="%a %{jira.request.id}r %{jira.request.username}r %t &quot;%m %U%q %H&quot; %s %b %D &quot;%{Referer}i&quot; &quot;%{User-Agent}i&quot; &quot;%{jira.request.assession.id}r&quot;"/>

</Engine>
 </Service>
</Server>

Any idea where I have gone wrong?  Is there a default server.xml file to which I can compare the above?

Thanks,

Seán 

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

What is the new error message?