confluence move server help
Asked by richardmh:

I look after a community instance of confluence 3.1.1 old, yes, I know... but it's worked perfectly since dec 2009. mssql db. community licence.

I've been meaning to upgrade for ages but didn't find the time (I'm a volunteer, and I knew it might be difficult) but the crunch has now come: It's on a virtual win2k3 server and the hosting company want to switch it off (for obvious reasons).

So I have a new win server 2016 datacenter, installed mssql Etc. and copied everything over from the old server.... and I've spent the last 5 days getting absolutely nowhere; failed to even get it to run in its original form before even thinking about an upgrade.

Before I have no hair left, I think the time has come to hire somebody to do this.

Can someone help me? We have a week before the original server is shut down....

Thanks

Richard

ps. It doesn't have to go to a new win server, it's just that I'm reasonably competent with the server admin and know nothing about linux, but if it could be got into a form which could be loaded into the latest docker image on linux then that would actually be a better long-term solution for our community.


Answers:
author: Charlie Misonne
body: Do you get anything useful in your logs?

If you want to hire someone you can look for Atlassian partners nearby on <https://partnerdirectory.atlassian.com/>

comments: author: richardmh
body: Not really - this is the result of running startup.bat and localhost.\<date\>.log is zero bytes

Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM warning: ignoring option MaxPermSize=256m; support was removed in 8.0  
Aug 07, 2019 12:24:48 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol init  
INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080  
Aug 07, 2019 12:24:48 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load  
INFO: Initialization processed in 577 ms  
Aug 07, 2019 12:24:48 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start  
INFO: Starting service Tomcat-Standalone  
Aug 07, 2019 12:24:48 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start  
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/6.0.14  
2019-08-07 12:25:23,497 INFO \[main\] \[com.atlassian.confluence.lifecycle\] contextInitialized Starting Confluence 3.1.1 (build #1724)  
2019-08-07 12:25:24,513 INFO \[main\] \[atlassian.plugin.manager.DefaultPluginManager\] init Initialising the plugin system  
2019-08-07 12:25:24,716 INFO \[main\] \[atlassian.plugin.manager.DefaultPluginManager\] init Plugin system started in 0:00:00.203  
2019-08-07 12:25:25,966 WARN \[main\] \[atlassian.config.xml.AbstractDom4jXmlConfigurationPersister\] saveDocumentAtomically Unable to move C:\\apps\\confluence\\data\\confluence.cfg.xml8169920552913312087tmp to C:\\apps\\confluence\\data\\confluence.cfg.xml. Falling back to non-atomic overwrite.  
Aug 07, 2019 12:25:39 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start  
SEVERE: Error listenerStart  
Aug 07, 2019 12:25:39 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start  
SEVERE: Context \[\] startup failed due to previous errors  
log4j:ERROR LogMananger.repositorySelector was null likely due to error in class reloading, using NOPLoggerRepository.  
Aug 07, 2019 12:25:40 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol start  
INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080  
Aug 07, 2019 12:25:40 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start  
INFO: Server startup in 52410 ms

thanks

Richard  


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migration

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