Request too large
Problem
When publishing large pages to Confluence, i.e. Jira project configurations with a lot of complex workflows, you may run into the following error:
Solution
In order to publish large pages to Confluence you have to, at least, reconfigure the Tomcat (Catalina) where Confluence is running on.
Please follow these steps
Open your Confluence's setenv.sh / setenv.bat
If you are running under Windows as a Service you need to locate the Registry Keys instead
Goto to "end" of the file where all the CATALINA_OPTS=... statements are located
Add one line to that block:
setenv.sh (Linux/Mac OS):
CATALINA_OPTS="-Datlassian.rest.request.maxsize=10485760 ${CATALINA_OPTS}"setenv.bat (Windows in foreground):
set CATALINA_OPTS=-Datlassian.rest.request.maxsize=10485760 %CATALINA_OPTS%Registry (Windows as a service):
Depends on your exact setup, but you have to add-Datlassian.rest.request.maxsize=10485760
Depending on your environment it may be required to:
Increase the "atlassian.rest.request.maxsize" even further
Also reconfigure any forward/reverse proxy in between you and the Confluence itself
If you are running a Confluence Data Center, remember to apply the above changes to all nodes
Workaround
Attempt to use a "smaller" template that does not include the details of the workflows:
jira-project-overview.vm
Or one of the two XLS exports (suitable for Confluence as well):
jira-project-to-group-and-user-xls.vm
jira-project-to-screen-to-field-xls.vm
This workaround can also be used to determine the general functionality, i.e. answering the question: "Does publishing in general works?"