unable to start confluence
Asked by Dwayne:

fedora 18

confluence 5.6.5

output from /opt/atlassian/confluence/bin/start-confluence.sh is as follows

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To run Confluence in the foreground, start the server with start-confluence.sh -fg  
executing as current user  
If you encounter issues starting up Confluence, please see the Installation guide at <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Installation+Guide>

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

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after this, performing a ps-ef \| grep \<PID number\> results in nothing found

parsing /opt/atlassian/confluence/logs/catalina.out shows the following

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Jun 16, 2019 8:46:36 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.SetPropertiesRule begin  
WARNING: \[SetPropertiesRule\]{Server} Setting property 'debug' to '0' did not find a matching property.  
Jun 16, 2019 8:46:36 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.SetAllPropertiesRule begin  
WARNING: \[SetAllPropertiesRule\]{Server/Service/Connector} Setting property 'debug' to '0' did not find a matching property.  
Jun 16, 2019 8:46:36 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.SetPropertiesRule begin  
WARNING: \[SetPropertiesRule\]{Server/Service/Engine} Setting property 'debug' to '0' did not find a matching property.  
Jun 16, 2019 8:46:36 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.SetPropertiesRule begin  
WARNING: \[SetPropertiesRule\]{Server/Service/Engine/Host} Setting property 'debug' to '0' did not find a matching property.  
Jun 16, 2019 8:46:36 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.SetPropertiesRule begin  
WARNING: \[SetPropertiesRule\]{Server/Service/Engine/Host/Context} Setting property 'debug' to '0' did not find a matching property.  
Jun 16, 2019 8:46:37 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol init  
INFO: Initializing ProtocolHandler \["http-bio-9099"\]  
Jun 16, 2019 8:46:37 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load  
INFO: Initialization processed in 829 ms  
Jun 16, 2019 8:46:37 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService startInternal  
INFO: Starting service Tomcat-Standalone  
Jun 16, 2019 8:46:37 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine startInternal  
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/7.0.52

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i've noticed that no logs are being logged to /var/atlassian/application-data/confluence/logs but do not know why.

have confirmed firewall is off (as root, systemctl firewalld stop)


Answers:
author: Kiran Panduga {Appfire}
body: Hi [@Dwayne](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3347269) ,

Can you check if the Confluence Home Directory (/var/atlassian/application-data/confluence/) is set in confluence-init-properties file ?

Also, check the permissions and ownership of /var/atlassian/application-data/confluence

If everything is good, once confluence starts, atlassian-confluence.log file will generate in /var/atlassian/application-data/confluence/logs.

Thanks,

Kiran.


author: sara
body: Hi,

There might be multiple reasons for this.

The logs doesn't show any error message.Please grep with error or FATAL.


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