Can't access confluence after SSL Setup

[bastiW]

I'm trying to setup ssl with an self singed certificate on ubuntu 14.04. I followed the steps as described in the confluence manual:

1. $JAVA_HOME/bin/keytool -genkeypair -alias tomcat -keyalg RSA
2. sudo mv .keystore /.sslcert

3. Uncomment
           <Connector port="8443" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192"
                      maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" maxSpareThreads="75"
                      enableLookups="false" disableUploadTimeout="true"
                      acceptCount="100" scheme="https" secure="true"
                      clientAuth="false" sslProtocol="TLS" SSLEnabled="true"
                      URIEncoding="UTF-8" keystorePass="<SECRET>"
                   keystoreFile="</.sslcert>"
                           />
   

   
   
4. change the default domain within confluence settings
5. Restart the server

After that I can't access the server anymore it just quits:
ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED

Could you please help?

[bastiW · Accepted solution]

It seems that installation of the certificate broke the acces right to the atlassian folders. Thats quiet strange. Some other guys had this problem too.

sudo chown -R confluence:confluence /opt/atlassian/confluence/   
sudo chown -R confluence:confluence /var/atlassian/application-data

EDIT: That does not seem to be the issue. The problem actually is that the startup of the server takes very long (up to 5 minutes). So after restarting the server I noticed the follwing:
- CPU load high
- Timeout first
- After 2 Minutes: Error 500
- After 5 Minutes: CPU load decreases -> Atlassian loads fine and fast

--> So waiting fixes the problem or maybe better switch to a real hardware instead of a xen virtualised enviroment (2 GB Ram, 3 Cores)


Thanks for your help!

[NotTheRealStephenSifersNOPENOPENOPENOPE]

Check out the following:

https://www.digicert.com/easy-csr/keytool.htm

http://www.digicert.com/ssl-certificate-installation-tomcat.htm

I used those without issue for self signed and 3rd part signed.

[bastiW]

Now the server started but then I get an error:

HTTP Status 500 - java.lang.NullPointerException

type Exception report

message java.lang.NullPointerException

description The server encountered an internal error that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception

com.atlassian.util.concurrent.LazyReference$InitializationException: java.lang.NullPointerException
	com.atlassian.util.concurrent.LazyReference.getInterruptibly(LazyReference.java:149)
	com.atlassian.util.concurrent.LazyReference.get(LazyReference.java:112)
	com.atlassian.confluence.setup.ConfluenceEncodingFilter.getGlobalSettings(ConfluenceEncodingFilter.java:47)
	com.atlassian.confluence.setup.ConfluenceEncodingFilter.getEncodingInternal(ConfluenceEncodingFilter.java:37)
	com.atlassian.confluence.setup.ConfluenceEncodingFilter.getEncoding(ConfluenceEncodingFilter.java:29)
	com.atlassian.core.filters.encoding.AbstractEncodingFilter.doFilter(AbstractEncodingFilter.java:38)
	com.atlassian.core.filters.AbstractHttpFilter.doFilter(AbstractHttpFilter.java:31)
	com.atlassian.core.filters.HeaderSanitisingFilter.doFilter(HeaderSanitisingFilter.java:44)
	com.atlassian.confluence.servlet.FourOhFourErrorLoggingFilter.doFilter(FourOhFourErrorLoggingFilter.java:65)
	com.atlassian.confluence.web.filter.DebugFilter.doFilter(DebugFilter.java:50)
	com.atlassian.core.filters.AbstractHttpFilter.doFilter(AbstractHttpFilter.java:31)
root cause

java.lang.NullPointerException
	com.atlassian.spring.container.ContainerManager.getComponent(ContainerManager.java:33)
	com.atlassian.confluence.util.LazyComponentReference$Accessor.get(LazyComponentReference.java:46)
	com.atlassian.util.concurrent.Lazy$Strong.create(Lazy.java:85)
	com.atlassian.util.concurrent.LazyReference$Sync.run(LazyReference.java:321)
	com.atlassian.util.concurrent.LazyReference.getInterruptibly(LazyReference.java:143)
	com.atlassian.util.concurrent.LazyReference.get(LazyReference.java:112)
	com.atlassian.confluence.setup.ConfluenceEncodingFilter.getGlobalSettings(ConfluenceEncodingFilter.java:47)
	com.atlassian.confluence.setup.ConfluenceEncodingFilter.getEncodingInternal(ConfluenceEncodingFilter.java:37)
	com.atlassian.confluence.setup.ConfluenceEncodingFilter.getEncoding(ConfluenceEncodingFilter.java:29)
	com.atlassian.core.filters.encoding.AbstractEncodingFilter.doFilter(AbstractEncodingFilter.java:38)
	com.atlassian.core.filters.AbstractHttpFilter.doFilter(AbstractHttpFilter.java:31)
	com.atlassian.core.filters.HeaderSanitisingFilter.doFilter(HeaderSanitisingFilter.java:44)
	com.atlassian.confluence.servlet.FourOhFourErrorLoggingFilter.doFilter(FourOhFourErrorLoggingFilter.java:65)
	com.atlassian.confluence.web.filter.DebugFilter.doFilter(DebugFilter.java:50)
	com.atlassian.core.filters.AbstractHttpFilter.doFilter(AbstractHttpFilter.java:31)
note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/7.0.47 logs.

Apache Tomcat/7.0.47

The CPU Load is also very high during startup and then the error occurs.

[bastiW]

The error still occurs afte I've changed back to http.

[NotTheRealStephenSifersNOPENOPENOPENOPE]

Did you by chance follow this?

https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Running+Confluence+Over+SSL+or+HTTPS

[bastiW]

For my first try I used the this manual. --> Server did not start.

The error occured when I used the configuration form this site:

http://www.digicert.com/ssl-certificate-installation-tomcat.htm

[NotTheRealStephenSifersNOPENOPENOPENOPE]

Ensure you are using a newly created keystore and then generate your self signed cert.

[bastiW]

Now the server started but then I get an error:

HTTP Status 500 - java.lang.NullPointerException

type Exception report

message java.lang.NullPointerException

description The server encountered an internal error that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception

com.atlassian.util.concurrent.LazyReference$InitializationException: java.lang.NullPointerException
	com.atlassian.util.concurrent.LazyReference.getInterruptibly(LazyReference.java:149)
	com.atlassian.util.concurrent.LazyReference.get(LazyReference.java:112)
	com.atlassian.confluence.setup.ConfluenceEncodingFilter.getGlobalSettings(ConfluenceEncodingFilter.java:47)
	com.atlassian.confluence.setup.ConfluenceEncodingFilter.getEncodingInternal(ConfluenceEncodingFilter.java:37)
	com.atlassian.confluence.setup.ConfluenceEncodingFilter.getEncoding(ConfluenceEncodingFilter.java:29)
	com.atlassian.core.filters.encoding.AbstractEncodingFilter.doFilter(AbstractEncodingFilter.java:38)
	com.atlassian.core.filters.AbstractHttpFilter.doFilter(AbstractHttpFilter.java:31)
	com.atlassian.core.filters.HeaderSanitisingFilter.doFilter(HeaderSanitisingFilter.java:44)
	com.atlassian.confluence.servlet.FourOhFourErrorLoggingFilter.doFilter(FourOhFourErrorLoggingFilter.java:65)
	com.atlassian.confluence.web.filter.DebugFilter.doFilter(DebugFilter.java:50)
	com.atlassian.core.filters.AbstractHttpFilter.doFilter(AbstractHttpFilter.java:31)
root cause

java.lang.NullPointerException
	com.atlassian.spring.container.ContainerManager.getComponent(ContainerManager.java:33)
	com.atlassian.confluence.util.LazyComponentReference$Accessor.get(LazyComponentReference.java:46)
	com.atlassian.util.concurrent.Lazy$Strong.create(Lazy.java:85)
	com.atlassian.util.concurrent.LazyReference$Sync.run(LazyReference.java:321)
	com.atlassian.util.concurrent.LazyReference.getInterruptibly(LazyReference.java:143)
	com.atlassian.util.concurrent.LazyReference.get(LazyReference.java:112)
	com.atlassian.confluence.setup.ConfluenceEncodingFilter.getGlobalSettings(ConfluenceEncodingFilter.java:47)
	com.atlassian.confluence.setup.ConfluenceEncodingFilter.getEncodingInternal(ConfluenceEncodingFilter.java:37)
	com.atlassian.confluence.setup.ConfluenceEncodingFilter.getEncoding(ConfluenceEncodingFilter.java:29)
	com.atlassian.core.filters.encoding.AbstractEncodingFilter.doFilter(AbstractEncodingFilter.java:38)
	com.atlassian.core.filters.AbstractHttpFilter.doFilter(AbstractHttpFilter.java:31)
	com.atlassian.core.filters.HeaderSanitisingFilter.doFilter(HeaderSanitisingFilter.java:44)
	com.atlassian.confluence.servlet.FourOhFourErrorLoggingFilter.doFilter(FourOhFourErrorLoggingFilter.java:65)
	com.atlassian.confluence.web.filter.DebugFilter.doFilter(DebugFilter.java:50)
	com.atlassian.core.filters.AbstractHttpFilter.doFilter(AbstractHttpFilter.java:31)
note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/7.0.47 logs.

Apache Tomcat/7.0.47

The CPU Load is also very high during startup and then the error occurs.