Issue:
When starting up Jira, an error is displayed blocking the startup. The error says server.xml has an issue with special characters then directs the admin to go
https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/changing-server-xml-to-handle-requests-with-special-characters-958453799.html.
Server setup:
Self-signed certificate for https
Https Port 8443
Here is the server.xml file that worked for me. I inserted at all Connector lines: relaxedPathChars="[]|" relaxedQueryChars="[]|{}^\`"<>"
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!--
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--><Server port="8005" shutdown="SHUTDOWN">
<Listener className="org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener"/>
<Listener SSLEngine="on" className="org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener"/>
<Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.JreMemoryLeakPreventionListener"/>
<Listener className="org.apache.catalina.mbeans.GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener"/>
<Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.ThreadLocalLeakPreventionListener"/>
<Service name="Catalina">
<Connector acceptCount="100" bindOnInit="false" connectionTimeout="20000" disableUploadTimeout="true" enableLookups="false" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192" maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1" redirectPort="8443" relaxedPathChars="[]|" relaxedQueryChars="[]|{}^\`"<>" useBodyEncodingForURI="true"/>
<!--
==============================================================================================================
DEFAULT - Direct connector with no proxy for unproxied access to Jira.
If using a http/https proxy, comment out this connector.
==============================================================================================================
-->
<!-- Relaxing chars because of JRASERVER-67974 -->
<!--
==============================================================================================================
HTTP - Proxying Jira via Apache or Nginx over HTTP
If you're proxying traffic to Jira over HTTP, uncomment the below connector and comment out the others.
Ensure the proxyName and proxyPort are updated with the appropriate information if necessary as per the docs.
See the following for more information:
Apache - https://confluence.atlassian.com/x/4xQLM
nginx - https://confluence.atlassian.com/x/DAFmGQ
==============================================================================================================
-->
<!--
<Connector port="8080" relaxedPathChars="[]|" relaxedQueryChars="[]|{}^\`"<>"
maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" connectionTimeout="20000" enableLookups="false"
maxHttpHeaderSize="8192" protocol="HTTP/1.1" useBodyEncodingForURI="true" redirectPort="8443"
acceptCount="100" disableUploadTimeout="true" bindOnInit="false" scheme="http"
proxyName="<subdomain>.<domain>.com" proxyPort="80"/>
-->
<!--
==============================================================================================================
HTTPS - Proxying Jira via Apache or Nginx over HTTPS
If you're proxying traffic to Jira over HTTPS, uncomment the below connector and comment out the others.
Ensure the proxyName and proxyPort are updated with the appropriate information if necessary as per the docs.
See the following for more information:
Apache - https://confluence.atlassian.com/x/PTT3MQ
nginx - https://confluence.atlassian.com/x/DAFmGQ
==============================================================================================================
-->
<!--
<Connector port="8080" relaxedPathChars="[]|" relaxedQueryChars="[]|{}^\`"<>"
maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" connectionTimeout="20000" enableLookups="false"
maxHttpHeaderSize="8192" protocol="HTTP/1.1" useBodyEncodingForURI="true" redirectPort="8443"
acceptCount="100" disableUploadTimeout="true" bindOnInit="false" secure="true" scheme="https"
proxyName="<subdomain>.<domain>.com" proxyPort="443"/>
-->
<!--
==============================================================================================================
AJP - Proxying Jira via Apache over HTTP or HTTPS
If you're proxying traffic to Jira using the AJP protocol, uncomment the following connector line
See the following for more information:
Apache - https://confluence.atlassian.com/x/QiJ9MQ
==============================================================================================================
-->
<!--
<Connector port="8009" URIEncoding="UTF-8" enableLookups="false" protocol="AJP/1.3"/>
-->
<Engine defaultHost="localhost" name="Catalina">
<Host appBase="webapps" autoDeploy="true" name="localhost" unpackWARs="true">
<Context docBase="${catalina.home}/atlassian-jira" path="" reloadable="false" useHttpOnly="true">
<Resource auth="Container" factory="org.objectweb.jotm.UserTransactionFactory" jotm.timeout="60" name="UserTransaction" type="javax.transaction.UserTransaction"/>
<Manager pathname=""/>
<JarScanner scanManifest="false"/>
<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.StuckThreadDetectionValve" threshold="120"/>
</Context>
</Host>
<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" pattern="%a %{jira.request.id}r %{jira.request.username}r %t "%m %U%q %H" %s %b %D "%{Referer}i" "%{User-Agent}i" "%{jira.request.assession.id}r""/>
</Engine>
<Connector relaxedPathChars="[]|" relaxedQueryChars="[]|{}^\`"<>" SSLEnabled="true" acceptCount="100" clientAuth="false" connectionTimeout="20000" disableUploadTimeout="true" enableLookups="false" keyAlias="jira" keystoreFile="/opt/atlassian/jira/jira.jks" keystorePass="2102#Commerce#Drive" keystoreType="JKS" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192" maxSpareThreads="75" maxThreads="150" minSpareThreads="25" port="8443" protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol" scheme="https" secure="true" sslProtocol="TLS" useBodyEncodingForURI="true"/></Service>
</Server>
