'ERROR A backup could not be created. Reason: Lexing failed on line: 1..' When creating a backup using the backup client
Symptoms
When creating a backup using the backup client, the following error appears in the terminal:
2014-02-05 15:56:28,920 INFO Initializing
2014-02-05 15:56:30,760 INFO Contacting Bitbucket Server
2014-02-05 15:56:31,057 ERROR A backup could not be created. Reason: Lexing failed on line: 1, column: 1, while reading '<', no possible valid JSON value or punctuation could be recognized.
groovy.json.JsonException: Lexing failed on line: 1, column: 1, while reading '<', no possible valid JSON value or punctuation could be recognized.
at groovy.json.JsonLexer.nextToken(JsonLexer.java:82) ~[groovy-all-2.1.6.jar:2.1.6]
at groovy.json.JsonSlurper.parse(JsonSlurper.java:73) ~[groovy-all-2.1.6.jar:2.1.6]
... 9 more frames available in the log fileCause
This happens if Bitbucket Server can't validate the JSON file from Bitbucket Server due to the following reasons:
- If there is an Apache setup that redirects to a different port.
- If you are using SSL in Bitbucket Server and the
bitbucket.baseUrlset in the backup configurations is a non-SSL URL redirects to the SSL URL.
Workaround
Set the bitbucket.baseUrl in the backup configurations to the original servername with the original port. For example: servername:7990 instead of servername:80.
Last modified on Mar 30, 2016
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