502 Bad Gateway when setting up Confluence Data Center on AWS

[Dennis Andersen]

Hi, 
We’ve followed the guide for setting up Confluence Data Center on AWS using this quickstart/guide https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart/architecture/confluence/
Basically using all default values, the stacks are created successfully. But when we’re trying to access the stack output url to do the confluence setup wizard we just get a 502 Bad Gateway. Anyone else had issues with this or any clues? 
Cheers! 
Dennis

[Dennis Andersen · Accepted solution]

So the issue was based in the EC2 instances not being initiated properly. More specifically Rebooting the Confluence Node(s) seemed to solve the issue. What this inital issue depended on I don't know, but if you have similar issues try restarting/terminating+creating a new node. 

[AnnWorley]

Thanks for following up to help others who run into this issue.

[Dennis Andersen]

So I'm back at the 502 bad gateway now, and restarting the instances doesn't seem to work anymore. So this solution might not work.. 

[AnnWorley]

To get the dialogue started, please let me know whether you used 

1. Deploy Confluence Data Center into a new VPC on AWS

2. or Deploy Confluence Data Center into an existing VPC

Please make sure you're in a supported region per: Supported AWS regions

This guide may help as well: Running Confluence Data Center in AWS

If the Atlassian stack is generating, but we just can't hit it with the browser, it could be something with the load balancer configuration. In addition to working with us here at Atlassian, it may be useful to contact AWS.

[Dennis Andersen]

Hi Ann, 

Thank you for the reply. We deployed into a new VPC and are in the region EU (Frankfurt). We also made sure to follow the guide you linked. AWS lists three running instances, and the CloudFormation Stacks were all successful, so it seems we're just missing something obvious. 

[Dennis Andersen]

I also asked the question on the developer community over here: https://community.developer.atlassian.com/t/setting-up-confluence-data-center-on-aws/10294

[AnnWorley]

From the developer forum thread you linked, it looks like on Friday you resolved the issue by restarting the EC2 instances.

If you are all set now, please let us know any details that might help the next person who is setting up Confluence Data Center on AWS.