Tomcat config is incorrect

[Navrattan Jain]

Getting following error please help:

Tomcat config is incorrect

The Tomcat server.xml has an incorrect configuration:

scheme should be 'https'
proxyName should be 'confluence.example.com'
proxyPort should be '443'

Here is my server.xml file content

<Server port="8400" shutdown="SHUTDOWN" debug="0">

    <Service name="Tomcat-Standalone">

        <!--

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

         DEFAULT - Direct connector with no proxy, for unproxied HTTP access to Confluence.

         If using a http/https proxy, comment out this connector.

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

        -->

        <Connector port="8300" connectionTimeout="20000" redirectPort="8443"

                   maxThreads="48" minSpareThreads="10"

                   enableLookups="false" acceptCount="10" debug="0" URIEncoding="UTF-8"

                   protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol"/>

                   proxyName="confluence.example.com" proxyPort="443" secure="true" scheme="https"/>

        <!--

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

         HTTP - Proxying Confluence via Apache or Nginx over HTTP

         If you're proxying traffic to Confluence over HTTP, uncomment the connector below and comment out the others.

         Make sure you provide the right information for proxyName and proxyPort.

         For more information see:

            Apache - https://confluence.atlassian.com/x/4xQLM

            nginx  - https://confluence.atlassian.com/x/TgSvEg

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

        -->

        <!--<Connector port="8300" connectionTimeout="20000" redirectPort="8443"

                   maxThreads="48" minSpareThreads="10"

                   enableLookups="false" acceptCount="10" debug="0" URIEncoding="UTF-8"

                   protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol"

                   scheme="http" proxyName="<subdomain>.<domain>.com" proxyPort="80"/>

        -->

        <!--

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

         HTTPS - Direct connector with no proxy, for unproxied HTTPS access to Confluence.

         For more info see https://confluence.atlassian.com/x/s3UC

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

        -->

        <!--

        <Connector port="8443" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192"

                   maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25"

                   protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Nio2Protocol"

                   enableLookups="false" disableUploadTimeout="true"

                   acceptCount="100" scheme="https" secure="true"

                   clientAuth="false" sslProtocol="TLSv1.2" sslEnabledProtocols="TLSv1.2" SSLEnabled="true"

                   URIEncoding="UTF-8" keystorePass="<MY_CERTIFICATE_PASSWORD>"/>

        -->

        <!--

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

         HTTPS - Proxying Confluence via Apache or Nginx over HTTPS

         If you're proxying traffic to Confluence over HTTPS, uncomment the connector below and comment out the others.

Make sure you provide the right information for proxyName and proxyPort.

         For more information see:

            Apache - https://confluence.atlassian.com/x/PTT3MQ

            nginx  - https://confluence.atlassian.com/x/cNIvMw

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

        -->

       <!--

       < Connector port="8300" connectionTimeout="20000" redirectPort="8443"

                   maxThreads="48" minSpareThreads="10"

                   enableLookups="false" acceptCount="10" debug="0" URIEncoding="UTF-8"

                   protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol"

                   scheme="https" secure="true" proxyName="<subdomain>.<domain>.com"  proxyPort="443"/>

       -->

        <Engine name="Standalone" defaultHost="localhost" debug="0">

            <Host name="localhost" debug="0" appBase="webapps" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="false" startStopThreads="4">

                <Context path="/" docBase="../confluence" debug="0" reloadable="false" useHttpOnly="true">

                    <!-- Logging configuration for Confluence is specified in confluence/WEB-INF/classes/log4j.properties -->

                    <Manager pathname=""/>

                    <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.StuckThreadDetectionValve" threshold="60"/>

                </Context>

                <Context path="${confluence.context.path}/synchrony-proxy" docBase="../synchrony-proxy" debug="0"

                         reloadable="false" useHttpOnly="true">

                    <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.StuckThreadDetectionValve" threshold="60"/>

</Context>

                <Context path="${confluence.context.path}/synchrony-proxy" docBase="../synchrony-proxy" debug="0"

                         reloadable="false" useHttpOnly="true">

                    <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.StuckThreadDetectionValve" threshold="60"/>

                </Context>

            </Host>

        </Engine>

    </Service>

</Server>

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

This is the same answer as we got to when you asked over in https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Confluence-server-showing-IP-address-instead-of-subdomain-name/qaq-p/1466308 and some other places.

You need to put the directives from the error message into the proxying connector, and you need to follow the instructions in the server.xml to set it up to use the right connector.

[Navrattan Jain]

got it solved. Thank you so much Nic, you mentioned somewhere that < should close with /> that was the issue. Thanks again.