and after trying to open xwiki start page I am getting:
HTTP Status 500 – Internal Server Error
Type Exception Report
Description The server encountered an unexpected condition that prevented it from fulfilling the request.
Exception
java.lang.NullPointerException
com.xpn.xwiki.web.Utils.getContextComponentManager(Utils.java:682)
com.xpn.xwiki.web.Utils.getComponent(Utils.java:739)
com.xpn.xwiki.web.Utils.getComponent(Utils.java:768)
com.xpn.xwiki.web.Utils.getComponent(Utils.java:721)
org.xwiki.wysiwyg.filter.ConversionFilter.doFilter(ConversionFilter.java:55)
org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:53)
org.xwiki.container.servlet.filters.internal.SetHTTPHeaderFilter.doFilter(SetHTTPHeaderFilter.java:63)
org.xwiki.container.servlet.filters.internal.SavedRequestRestorerFilter.doFilter(SavedRequestRestorerFilter.java:208)
org.xwiki.container.servlet.filters.internal.SetCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(SetCharacterEncodingFilter.java:111)
org.xwiki.resource.servlet.RoutingFilter.doFilter(RoutingFilter.java:132)
Note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the server logs.
Apache Tomcat/9.0.43 (Debian)
in /var/log/tomcat9:
06-Sep-2022 09:35:28.507 SEVERE [http-nio-8080-exec-9] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke Servlet.service() for servlet [action] in context with path [/xwiki] threw exception
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.xpn.xwiki.web.Utils.getContextComponentManager(Utils.java:682)
at com.xpn.xwiki.web.Utils.getComponent(Utils.java:739)
at com.xpn.xwiki.web.Utils.getComponent(Utils.java:768)
at com.xpn.xwiki.web.Utils.getComponent(Utils.java:721)
at org.xwiki.wysiwyg.filter.ConversionFilter.doFilter(ConversionFilter.java:55)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:189)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:162)
at org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:53)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:189)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:162)
at org.xwiki.container.servlet.filters.internal.SetHTTPHeaderFilter.doFilter(SetHTTPHeaderFilter.java:63)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:189)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:162)
at org.xwiki.container.servlet.filters.internal.SavedRequestRestorerFilter.doFilter(SavedRequestRestorerFilter.java:208)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:189)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:162)
at org.xwiki.container.servlet.filters.internal.SetCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(SetCharacterEncodingFilter.java:111)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:189)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:162)
at org.xwiki.resource.servlet.RoutingFilter.doFilter(RoutingFilter.java:132)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:189)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:162)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:202)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:97)
at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:542)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:143)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:92)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.AbstractAccessLogValve.invoke(AbstractAccessLogValve.java:687)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:78)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:346)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.service(Http11Processor.java:382)
at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProcessorLight.process(AbstractProcessorLight.java:65)
at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$ConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:887)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1684)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.SocketProcessorBase.run(SocketProcessorBase.java:49)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1128)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:628)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:829)
Not sure I understand your question, it seems to did found where the XWiki log is located, but what you pasted looks like the last error in that log file.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--
* See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional
* information regarding copyright ownership.
*
* This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
* under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as
* published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of
* the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*
* This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
* Lesser General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
* License along with this software; if not, write to the Free
* Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
* 02110-1301 USA, or see the FSF site: http://www.fsf.org.
-->
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC
"-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD//EN"
"http://www.hibernate.org/dtd/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">
<hibernate-configuration>
<session-factory>
<!-- Please refer to the installation guide on
https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Documentation/AdminGuide/Installation/ for configuring your database.
You'll need to do 2 things:
1) Copy your database driver JAR in WEB-INF/lib or in some shared lib directory
2) Uncomment the properties below for your specific DB (and comment the default
database configuration if it doesn't match your DB)
-->
Ha, indeed, we need to improve the Debian install script to properly escape the password (it’s not so much a “special characters” general problem than an XML syntax character problem). It was reported already on Loading..., but never had time to look at it.
