Crowd installation fails with a 404 error
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Note that this KB was created for the Data Center version of the product. Data Center KBs for non-Data-Center-specific features may also work for Server versions of the product, however they have not been tested. Support for Server* products ended on February 15th 2024. If you are running a Server product, you can visit the Atlassian Server end of support announcement to review your migration options.
*Except Fisheye and Crucible
Symptoms
While installing Crowd, you get the following 404 on the installation wizard :

The following appears in the atlassian-jira.log
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2013-12-09 12:43:58,204 http-bio-8095-exec-22 ERROR [engine.jdbc.spi.SqlExceptionHelper] Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint 'PK__cwd_appl__52393239625A9A57'. Cannot insert duplicate key in object 'dbo.cwd_application_address'.
2013-12-09 12:43:58,204 http-bio-8095-exec-22 ERROR [jdbc.batch.internal.BatchingBatch] HHH000315: Exception executing batch [could not perform addBatch]
2013-12-09 12:43:58,204 http-bio-8095-exec-22 ERROR [atlassian.event.internal.AsynchronousAbleEventDispatcher] There was an exception thrown trying to dispatch event 'com.atlassian.crowd.event.application.ApplicationDirectoryAddedEvent@4fe0b33c' from the invoker 'SingleParameterMethodListenerInvoker{method=public void com.atlassian.crowd.event.StoringEventListener.handleEvent(com.atlassian.crowd.event.application.ApplicationDirectoryAddedEvent), listener=com.atlassian.crowd.event.StoringEventListener@7e92f537}'.
java.lang.RuntimeException: could not perform addBatch
at com.atlassian.event.internal.SingleParameterMethodListenerInvoker.invoke(SingleParameterMethodListenerInvoker.java:54)
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Caused by: java.sql.BatchUpdateException: Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint 'PK__cwd_appl__52393239625A9A57'. Cannot insert duplicate key in object 'dbo.cwd_application_address'.
at net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.JtdsStatement.executeBatch(JtdsStatement.java:1077)
Diagnosis
The URL used to set up the instance is : http://mymachine:8095/crowd
Cause
Not known to us at this point.
Resolution
Re-install the application and using localhost address : http://localhost:8095/crowd in the installation wizard.
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