Confluence Loads with 500 Error after Install
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*Except Fisheye and Crucible
Symptoms
When attempting to load Confluence in a browser after performing a new Install (or server migration, upgrade, etc), instead of loading the Confluence Setup Wizard a 500 error page is displayed
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HTTP Status 500 -
type Exception report
message
description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.
exception
com.atlassian.util.concurrent.LazyReference$InitializationException: java.lang.NullPointerException
com.atlassian.util.concurrent.LazyReference.getInterruptibly(LazyReference.java:149)
com.atlassian.util.concurrent.LazyReference.get(LazyReference.java:112)
com.atlassian.confluence.setup.ConfluenceEncodingFilter.getGlobalSettings(ConfluenceEncodingFilter.java:45)
com.atlassian.confluence.setup.ConfluenceEncodingFilter.getEncodingInternal(ConfluenceEncodingFilter.java:35)
com.atlassian.confluence.setup.ConfluenceEncodingFilter.getEncoding(ConfluenceEncodingFilter.java:27)
com.atlassian.core.filters.encoding.AbstractEncodingFilter.doFilter(AbstractEncodingFilter.java:38)
com.atlassian.core.filters.AbstractHttpFilter.doFilter(AbstractHttpFilter.java:31)
com.atlassian.core.filters.HeaderSanitisingFilter.doFilter(HeaderSanitisingFilter.java:44)
com.atlassian.confluence.servlet.FourOhFourErrorLoggingFilter.doFilter(FourOhFourErrorLoggingFilter.java:65)
root cause
java.lang.NullPointerException
com.atlassian.spring.container.ContainerManager.getComponent(ContainerManager.java:33)
com.atlassian.confluence.util.LazyComponentReference$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:45)
com.atlassian.confluence.setup.ConfluenceEncodingFilter.getEncodingInternal(ConfluenceEncodingFilter.java:35)
com.atlassian.confluence.setup.ConfluenceEncodingFilter.getEncoding(ConfluenceEncodingFilter.java:27)
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)
note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/6.0.35 logs.
Apache Tomcat/6.0.35Cause
The permissions for the account that launches Confluence <confluence_home> and <confluence_install> were not set correctly.
Resolution
The account that launches Confluence must be given Read/Write/Execute privileges for
<confluence_home>and<confluence_install>
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