ERROR: 500 when openfire.xml is modified

Openfire Openfire Support
1

Hey folks,

I had openfire running flawlessly until yesterday when I decided to

make a slight modification in the openfire.xml conf file. I’ve stopped

openfire with /etc/init.d/openfire stop then I changed the connection

string for my jdbcProvider:

<jdbcProvider>

<driver>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</driver>

<connectionString>jdbc:mysql:/AAAAA/aaaaa?user=bob&password=secrete&l t;/connectionString>

</jdbcProvider>

Then I restarted openfire with /etc/init.d/openfire start and… It

no longer worked. When I tried to access the admin web area I was lead

to the setup wizard. I tried to setup the system again but when

defining the profile settings I got the error bellow. Now even when I

use my old conf file I got the same error!!!

Any thoughts on this?

Thanks!

Daniel Madruga.

HTTP ERROR: 500

INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR

RequestURI=/setup/setup-profile-settings.jsp

Caused by:

java.lang.NullPointerException
     at org.jivesoftware.util.JiveGlobals.deleteXMLProperty(JiveGlobals.java:492)
     at org.jivesoftware.openfire.admin.setup.setup_002dprofile_002dsettings_jsp._jspService(setup_002dprofile_002dsettings_jsp.java:75)
     at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:97)
     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:820)
     at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:487)
     at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1093)
     at com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.filter.PageFilter.parsePage(PageFilter.java:118)
     at com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.filter.PageFilter.doFilter(PageFilter.java:52)
     at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1084)
     at org.jivesoftware.util.LocaleFilter.doFilter(LocaleFilter.java:65)
     at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1084)
     at org.jivesoftware.util.SetCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(SetCharacterEncodingFilter.java:41)
     at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1084)
     at org.jivesoftware.admin.PluginFilter.doFilter(PluginFilter.java:69)
     at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1084)
     at org.jivesoftware.admin.AuthCheckFilter.doFilter(AuthCheckFilter.java:98)
     at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1084)
     at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:360)
     at org.mortbay.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:216)
     at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionHandler.handle(SessionHandler.java:181)
     at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.handle(ContextHandler.java:726)
     at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.handle(WebAppContext.java:405)
     at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:206)
     at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerCollection.handle(HandlerCollection.java:114)
     at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:139)
     at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.handle(Server.java:324)
     at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handleRequest(HttpConnection.java:505)
     at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection$RequestHandler.content(HttpConnection.java:842)
     at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:648)
     at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:211)
     at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:380)
     at org.mortbay.io.nio.SelectChannelEndPoint.run(SelectChannelEndPoint.java:395)
     at org.mortbay.thread.BoundedThreadPool$PoolThread.run(BoundedThreadPool.java:450)

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2

I realized openfire.xml was read-only :stuck_out_tongue:

But… anyway… Why in the world openfire wants me to setup the system

again whenever I perform any modification in the conf file??? Is there

a way to prevent this happening?

Thanks!

3

linux/windows? maybe this is a permissions issue?

4

Linux.

Indeed after setting writing permission to openfire.xml I could

finish the setup process. But if I change the file content and set

chmod 777, when I restart openfire it leads me to the setup wizard. I’m

wondering which criteria openfire uses to determinate the system "was

not yet" configured. I checked my properties table on the DB and it

seems ok.

Thanks!

5

openfire.xml

(false means setup wasnt completed)

6

Excelent!

Thanks for your support!