Starting Confluence service

[Michel saliba]

Hi All,

I have intalled confluence atlassian-confluence-8.7.1-x64 on my personal laptop, the management interface was opening normally and a space has been created.(http://localhost:8090/)

I am trying to lunch confluence again after restarting my laptop but not able to access it 

C:\Program Files\Atlassian\Confluence\bin>start-confluence

To run Confluence in the foreground, start the server with start-confluence.bat /fg
"If you encounter issues starting up Confluence, please see the Installation guide at http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Installation+Guide"
Neither the JAVA_HOME nor the JRE_HOME environment variable is defined
At least one of these environment variable is needed to run this program
Neither the JAVA_HOME nor the JRE_HOME environment variable is defined
At least one of these environment variable is needed to run this program

Please advise 

[Michel saliba]

Hello Craig,

I find the below error in catalina log

11-Dec-2023 22:56:03.963 SEVERE [main] org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.handleSubClassException Failed to initialize component [Connector["http-nio-8090"]]
org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Protocol handler initialization failed
at org.apache.catalina.connector.Connector.initInternal(Connector.java:1011)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.init(LifecycleBase.java:127)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.initInternal(StandardService.java:554)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.init(LifecycleBase.java:127)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.initInternal(StandardServer.java:1039)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.init(LifecycleBase.java:127)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:724)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.load(Catalina.java:746)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.load(Bootstrap.java:307)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:477)
Caused by: java.net.BindException: Address already in use: bind
at java.base/sun.nio.ch.Net.bind0(Native Method)
at java.base/sun.nio.ch.Net.bind(Unknown Source)
at java.base/sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketChannelImpl.netBind(Unknown Source)
at java.base/sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketChannelImpl.bind(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint.initServerSocket(NioEndpoint.java:276)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint.bind(NioEndpoint.java:231)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AbstractEndpoint.bindWithCleanup(AbstractEndpoint.java:1326)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AbstractEndpoint.init(AbstractEndpoint.java:1339)
at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol.init(AbstractProtocol.java:654)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Protocol.init(AbstractHttp11Protocol.java:75)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.Connector.initInternal(Connector.java:1009)
... 13 more


But also I have tried to restart my laptop then starting the service (start-confluence) to confirm that this is the first binding and also it fails.

[Michel saliba]

Hello Craig,

yes I have adjusted setenv under C:\Program Files\Atlassian\Confluence\bin to include 
SET "JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Atlassian\Confluence\jre"

like the below :

SET "JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Atlassian\Confluence\jre"
:: IMPORTANT NOTE: Only set JAVA_HOME or JRE_HOME above this line

i have started the service but it seems it is hanging when runing start-confluence

2023-12-11 22:31:44,296 INFO [Catalina-utility-1] [com.atlassian.confluence.lifecycle] contextInitialized Using JVM argument -Dignore.endorsed.dirs=
2023-12-11 22:31:44,297 INFO [Catalina-utility-1] [com.atlassian.confluence.lifecycle] contextInitialized Using JVM argument -Dcatalina.base=C:\\Program Files\\Atlassian\\Confluence
2023-12-11 22:31:44,297 INFO [Catalina-utility-1] [com.atlassian.confluence.lifecycle] contextInitialized Using JVM argument -Dcatalina.home=C:\\Program Files\\Atlassian\\Confluence
2023-12-11 22:31:44,297 INFO [Catalina-utility-1] [com.atlassian.confluence.lifecycle] contextInitialized Using JVM argument -Djava.io.tmpdir=C:\\Program Files\\Atlassian\\Confluence\\temp
WARNING: sun.reflect.Reflection.getCallerClass is not supported. This will impact performance.

Please advise

[Craig Nodwell]

Do you have more to the log file?  Like the actual error message maybe??

[Michel saliba]

Hello Craig

I have stopped the service again using stop-confluence ,confirm that no service  running on port 8090 , I have started it again  without find any errors but it is still hanging 

11-Dec-2023 23:04:52.351 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.startInternal Starting service [Tomcat-Standalone]
11-Dec-2023 23:04:52.351 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.startInternal Starting Servlet engine: [Apache Tomcat/9.0.82]
11-Dec-2023 23:04:54.114 INFO [Catalina-utility-2] org.apache.jasper.servlet.TldScanner.scanJars At least one JAR was scanned for TLDs yet contained no TLDs. Enable debug logging for this logger for a complete list of JARs that were scanned but no TLDs were found in them. Skipping unneeded JARs during scanning can improve startup time and JSP compilation time.
11-Dec-2023 23:04:54.423 INFO [Catalina-utility-2] org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext.log 1 Spring WebApplicationInitializers detected on classpath
11-Dec-2023 23:04:54.668 INFO [Catalina-utility-2] org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext.log Initializing Spring DispatcherServlet 'dispatcher'

[Craig Nodwell]

Hi @Michel saliba you need to set the path to both JAVA_HOME and JRE_HOME on the laptop prior to running the start-confluence.bat file this file is looking for these to be set.  

Here's a page for your review on how to do that.