After upgrading the TIBCO Spotfire Server, the upgrade.log file will indicate the upgrade was successful. But when you start the TIBCO Spotfire Server service, it will not start. In the server's catalina.log the following message is seen:

07-Aug-2017 17:10:01.647 SEVERE [localhost-startStop-1] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class [com.spotfire.server.lifecycle.SpotfireServerInitializer]
 org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'rmiConnectorFactory' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'configurationProperties' while setting constructor argument; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'configurationProperties' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]: Cannot create inner bean 'com.spotfire.server.config.UnionConfigurationProvider#5b54e4a6' of type [com.spotfire.server.config.UnionConfigurationProvider] while setting constructor argument; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'com.spotfire.server.config.UnionConfigurationProvider#5b54e4a6' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]: Cannot create inner bean 'siteManager$created#49f22340' while setting constructor argument; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'siteManager' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]: Bean instantiation via constructor failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Failed to instantiate [com.spotfire.server.site.SiteManager]: Constructor threw exception; nested exception is com.spotfire.server.site.SiteException: Unable to find the site for the node
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveReference(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:359)
    ...

• https://docs.tibco.com/pub/spotfire_server/11.4.5/doc/html/TIB_sfire_server_tsas_admin_help/server/topics/creating_the_bootstrap.xml_file.html