Unable to Login to Confluence due to Inactive Application in Crowd

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Symptoms

Crowd users are not able to log into Confluence. The following appears in the atlassian-confluence.log:

2012-12-12 21:27:38,324 WARN [scheduler_Worker-6] [directory.ldap.cache.EventTokenChangedCacheRefresher] synchroniseAll Could not update event token.
com.atlassian.crowd.exception.OperationFailedException: com.atlassian.crowd.exception.ApplicationPermissionException: <html><head><title>Apache Tomcat/6.0.32 - Error report</title><style><!--H1 {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;font-size:22px;} H2 {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;font-size:16px;} H3 {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;font-size:14px;} BODY {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-color:white;} B {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;} P {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;background:white;color:black;font-size:12px;}A {color : black;}A.name {color : black;}HR {color : #525D76;}--></style> </head><body><h1>HTTP Status 403 - Application confluence is inactive.</h1><HR size="1" noshade="noshade"><p><b>type</b> Status report</p><p><b>message</b> <u>Application confluence is inactive.</u></p><p><b>description</b> <u>Access to the specified resource (Application confluence is inactive.) has been forbidden.</u></p><HR size="1" noshade="noshade"><h3>Apache Tomcat/6.0.32</h3></body></html>
	at com.atlassian.crowd.directory.RemoteCrowdDirectory.getCurrentEventToken(RemoteCrowdDirectory.java:654)
	at com.atlassian.crowd.directory.ldap.cache.EventTokenChangedCacheRefresher.synchroniseAll(EventTokenChangedCacheRefresher.java:45)
	at com.atlassian.crowd.directory.DbCachingRemoteDirectory.synchroniseCache(DbCachingRemoteDirectory.java:620)
	at com.atlassian.crowd.manager.directory.DirectorySynchroniserImpl.synchronise(DirectorySynchroniserImpl.java:63)
	at com.atlassian.crowd.directory.DbCachingDirectoryPoller.pollChanges(DbCachingDirectoryPoller.java:50)
	at com.atlassian.crowd.manager.directory.monitor.poller.DirectoryPollerJobBean.executeInternal(DirectoryPollerJobBean.java:29)
	at org.springframework.scheduling.quartz.QuartzJobBean.execute(QuartzJobBean.java:86)
	at org.quartz.core.JobRunShell.run(JobRunShell.java:199)
	at com.atlassian.confluence.schedule.quartz.ConfluenceQuartzThreadPool$1.run(ConfluenceQuartzThreadPool.java:20)
	at org.quartz.simpl.SimpleThreadPool$WorkerThread.run(SimpleThreadPool.java:549)
Caused by: com.atlassian.crowd.exception.ApplicationPermissionException: <html><head><title>Apache Tomcat/6.0.32 - Error report</title><style><!--H1 {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;font-size:22px;} H2 {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;font-size:16px;} H3 {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;font-size:14px;} BODY {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-color:white;} B {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;} P {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;background:white;color:black;font-size:12px;}A {color : black;}A.name {color : black;}HR {color : #525D76;}--></style> </head><body><h1>HTTP Status 403 - Application confluence is inactive.</h1><HR size="1" noshade="noshade"><p><b>type</b> Status report</p><p><b>message</b> <u>Application confluence is inactive.</u></p><p><b>description</b> <u>Access to the specified resource (Application confluence is inactive.) has been forbidden.</u></p><HR size="1" noshade="noshade"><h3>Apache Tomcat/6.0.32</h3></body></html>
	at com.atlassian.crowd.integration.rest.service.RestExecutor.throwError(RestExecutor.java:458)
	at com.atlassian.crowd.integration.rest.service.RestExecutor$MethodExecutor.andReceive(RestExecutor.java:312)
	at com.atlassian.crowd.integration.rest.service.RestCrowdClient.getCurrentEventToken(RestCrowdClient.java:944)
	at com.atlassian.crowd.directory.RemoteCrowdDirectory.getCurrentEventToken(RemoteCrowdDirectory.java:651)
	... 9 more

Cause

The Confluence application in Crowd is inactive

Resolution

  • Log in to the Crowd Administration Console.
  • Click the 'Applications' tab in the top navigation bar.
  • Ensure that the Confluence application is active

Last modified on Mar 30, 2016

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