The TIBCO Spotfire Server URL may fail to load in the browser, showing a "An internal error has occurred. Go to start page" error as below screenshot along with the following warning in the server.log even after successful server startup message in catalina log ( from <TSS installation folder>\tomcat\logs).
This behavior is regardless of authentication type on Spotfire server.
server.log ( From <TSS installation folder>\tomcat\logs) captures warnings like “HTTP method GET is not allowed” or “HTTP method GET is not allowed” :
Example logs for HTTP method POST: WARN 2020-02-28T16:49:05,493-0800 [unknown, #-, #261] server.security.HttpMethodsFilter: HTTP method POST is not allowed for URI /spotfire/nodemanager/trust/ocsp
WARN 2020-02-28T16:49:06,502-0800 [unknown, #1, #42] server.security.HttpMethodsFilter: HTTP method POST is not allowed for URI /spotfire/nodemanager/command
WARN 2020-02-28T16:49:43,540-0800 [unknown, #11, #336] server.security.HttpMethodsFilter: HTTP method POST is not allowed for URI /spotfire/nodemanager/messages
WARN 2020-02-28T16:49:06,502-0800 [] server.http.HttpCallable: Failed to send ServiceConfigCommand request to 'https://tss-kerberos1.boston.local:9403/spotfire/nodemanager/command' : 405
org.springframework.web.client.HttpClientErrorException$MethodNotAllowed: 405
at org.springframework.web.client.HttpClientErrorException.create(HttpClientErrorException.java:87) ~[spring-web.jar:5.1.5.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.web.client.DefaultResponseErrorHandler.handleError(DefaultResponseErrorHandler.java:122) ~[spring-web.jar:5.1.5.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.web.client.DefaultResponseErrorHandler.handleError(DefaultResponseErrorHandler.java:102) ~[spring-web.jar:5.1.5.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.web.client.ResponseErrorHandler.handleError(ResponseErrorHandler.java:63) ~[spring-web.jar:5.1.5.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate.handleResponse(RestTemplate.java:778) ~[spring-web.jar:5.1.5.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate.doExecute(RestTemplate.java:736) ~[spring-web.jar:5.1.5.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate.execute(RestTemplate.java:670) ~[spring-web.jar:5.1.5.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate.postForEntity(RestTemplate.java:445) ~[spring-web.jar:5.1.5.RELEASE]
at com.spotfire.server.http.HttpCallable.call(HttpCallable.java:108) ~[spotfire-node-manager.jar:?]
at com.spotfire.server.http.HttpCallable.call(HttpCallable.java:36) ~[spotfire-node-manager.jar:?]
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266) ~[?:1.8.0_201]
at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.access$201(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:180) ~[?:1.8.0_201]
at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:293) ~[?:1.8.0_201]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149) ~[?:1.8.0_201]
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624) ~[?:1.8.0_201]
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) [?:1.8.0_201] Example logs for HTTP method GET: WARN 2020-02-28T16:52:10,774-0800 [unknown, #9, #256] server.security.HttpMethodsFilter: HTTP method GET is not allowed for URI /spotfire/
WARN 2020-02-28T16:52:10,821-0800 [unknown, #9, #257] server.security.HttpMethodsFilter: HTTP method GET is not allowed for URI /spotfire/resources/min/app-lib.css
WARN 2020-02-28T16:52:10,821-0800 [unknown, #9, #258] server.security.HttpMethodsFilter: HTTP method GET is not allowed for URI /spotfire/resources/min/third-party.js
WARN 2020-02-28T16:52:10,821-0800 [unknown, #9, #259] server.security.HttpMethodsFilter: HTTP method GET is not allowed for URI /spotfire/resources/min/app.css
WARN 2020-02-28T16:52:10,821-0800 [unknown, #9, #260] server.security.HttpMethodsFilter: HTTP method GET is not allowed for URI /spotfire/resources/min/app.js
This can happen if the default HTTP methods are not present in Spotfire Server configuration under <allowed-http-methods> </allowed-http-methods> as below:
<allowed-http-methods> <method-name>DELETE</method-name> <method-name>GET</method-name> <method-name>HEAD</method-name> <method-name>PUT</method-name> </allowed-http-methods>