Can I regenerate server.xml file in Jira 7.1.4

[Bose Kamineni]

I started Jira and the URL was working as http://<localhost>:8080

I made change to server.xml but forgot to take copy of the original file- change was make the URL work as http://<localhost>:8080/jira

I suppose that I might have done some thing wrong.

When I try to stop JIRA catalina.out had error message-

15-Apr-2016 14:35:19.882 WARNING [main]org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load Catalina.start using conf/server.xml: Element type "Context" must be followed by either attribute specifications, ">" or "/>".
15-Apr-2016 14:35:19.887 SEVERE [main]org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.fatalError Parse Fatal Error at line 120 column 33: Element type "Context" must be followed by either attribute specifications, ">" or "/>".
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; systemId: file:/opt/atlassian/jira/conf/server.xml; lineNumber: 120; columnNumber: 33; Element type "Context" must be followed by either attribute specifications, ">" or "/>".

I reverted back the changes and now the server.xml has

in line 120- 

<Context path=""docBase="${catalina.home}/atlassian-jira" reloadable="false" useHttpOnly="true">

but I am not able to start JIRA

I see the error message in catalina.out  in /opt/atlassian/jira/logs

15-Apr-2016 15:23:29.504 WARNING [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load Catalina.start using conf/server.xml: Element type "Context" must be f ollowed by either attribute specifications, ">" or "/>".
4263 15-Apr-2016 15:23:29.505 SEVERE [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start Cannot start server. Server instance is not configured.

Thanks,

Bose Kamineni

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

It's malformed xml, and the error message is pretty much the right answer.  Look carefully at the <Context line - you seem to have closed it with > which means "more detail to come, followed by a </Context> to end it".  Then, I suspect you haven't given it those details or the end tag.  If there is nothing to go into the context, try ending it with /> instead to say "here's all the context information in one line"

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

p.s. un-closed xml elements - bane of my life for months, until I found a decent xml editor that told me where I'd got it wrong.  I hate editing those files - absolute guarantee I won't get them right first time, even after 12 years.

[Bose Kamineni]

Nic,

thank you for all the help.

<Context path="" docBase="${catalina.home}/atlassian-jira" reloadable="false" useHttpOnly="true">

it worked.

Bose Kamineni

[Bose Kamineni]

Nic,

the issue is when I reverted back - deleted the space between """ docbase

after putting the space able to start JIRA and now re-indexing is in progress.

the token should be path='' docbase=".."

<Context path=""docBase="${catalina.home}/atlassian-jira" reloadable="false" useHttpOnly="true">

Thanks,

Bose Kamineni