Getting HTTP Error Code 500 for All REST Requests

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Symptoms

  1. All REST requests resulted in HTTP Error Code 500
  2. JIRA is also affected
  3. Using IIS 5.1 for both JIRA and Confluence standalone

The following appears in the HTTP capture:


    HTTP/1.1 500 Server Error
    Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.1
    Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 20:57:39 GMT
    Connection: close
    Content-Type: text/html
    Content-Length: 87

    <html><head><title>Error</title></head><body>The parameter is incorrect.
    </body></html>

Cause

This is a known bug in Tomcat IIS Connector for IIS 5.1.

Resolution

Upgrade to IIS 6 or later.


Last modified on Mar 30, 2016

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