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Published Sep. 10, 2025

Liferay server is not reachable with the error "HTTP 404" on the browser

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Issue

  • When accessing the server on the browser, the server is unreachable with the error HTTP 404 and the following error is observed on the Liferay logs.
    ERROR [liferay/scheduler_dispatch-4][JDBCExceptionReporter:234] HikariPool-1 - Connection is not available, request timed out after 30000ms.
    2019-12-12 10:59:46.615 ERROR [liferay/scheduler_dispatch-4][JDBCExceptionReporter:234] The TCP/IP connection to the host 10.92.4.116, port 1433 has failed. Error: "connect timed out. Verify the connection properties. Make sure that an instance of SQL Server is running on the host and accepting TCP/IP connections at the port. Make sure that TCP connections to the port are not blocked by a firewall.".
    Caused by: com.liferay.portal.kernel.dao.orm.ORMException: org.hibernate.exception.JDBCConnectionException: could not execute query
     at com.liferay.portal.dao.orm.hibernate.ExceptionTranslator.translate(ExceptionTranslator.java:34)
     at com.liferay.portal.dao.orm.hibernate.QueryImpl.uniqueResult(QueryImpl.java:398)
     at com.liferay.portlet.blogs.service.persistence.impl.BlogsEntryPersistenceImpl.countByLtD_S(BlogsEntryPersistenceImpl.java:8606)
     ... 31 more
    Caused by: org.hibernate.exception.JDBCConnectionException: could not execute query
     at org.hibernate.exception.SQLStateConverter.convert(SQLStateConverter.java:99)
     at org.hibernate.exception.JDBCExceptionHelper.convert(JDBCExceptionHelper.java:66)
     at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.doList(Loader.java:2545)
     at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.listIgnoreQueryCache(Loader.java:2276)
     at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.list(Loader.java:2271)
     at org.hibernate.hql.classic.QueryTranslatorImpl.list(QueryTranslatorImpl.java:940)
     at org.hibernate.engine.query.HQLQueryPlan.performList(HQLQueryPlan.java:196)
     at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.list(SessionImpl.java:1268)
     at org.hibernate.impl.QueryImpl.list(QueryImpl.java:102)
     at org.hibernate.impl.AbstractQueryImpl.uniqueResult(AbstractQueryImpl.java:890)
     at com.liferay.portal.dao.orm.hibernate.QueryImpl.uniqueResult(QueryImpl.java:395)
     ... 32 more
    Caused by: java.sql.SQLTransientConnectionException: HikariPool-1 - Connection is not available, request timed out after 30000ms.
     at com.zaxxer.hikari.pool.HikariPool.createTimeoutException(HikariPool.java:591)
     at com.zaxxer.hikari.pool.HikariPool.getConnection(HikariPool.java:194)
     at com.zaxxer.hikari.pool.HikariPool.getConnection(HikariPool.java:146)
     at com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariDataSource.getConnection(HikariDataSource.java:112)
     at org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.LazyConnectionDataSourceProxy$LazyConnectionInvocationHandler.getTargetConnection(LazyConnectionDataSourceProxy.java:403)
     at org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.LazyConnectionDataSourceProxy$LazyConnectionInvocationHandler.invoke(LazyConnectionDataSourceProxy.java:376)
     at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy7.prepareStatement(Unknown Source)
     at org.hibernate.jdbc.AbstractBatcher.getPreparedStatement(AbstractBatcher.java:534)
     at org.hibernate.jdbc.AbstractBatcher.getPreparedStatement(AbstractBatcher.java:452)
     at org.hibernate.jdbc.AbstractBatcher.prepareQueryStatement(AbstractBatcher.java:161)
     at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.prepareQueryStatement(Loader.java:1700)
     at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.doQuery(Loader.java:801)
     at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.doQueryAndInitializeNonLazyCollections(Loader.java:274)
     at org.hibernate.loader.Loader.doList(Loader.java:2542)
     ... 40 more
    Caused by: com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException: The TCP/IP connection to the host 10.92.4.116, port 1433 has failed. Error: "connect timed out. Verify the connection properties. Make sure that an instance of SQL Server is running on the host and accepting TCP/IP connections at the port. Make sure that TCP connections to the port are not blocked by a firewall.".
     at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException.makeFromDriverError(SQLServerException.java:226)
     at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException.ConvertConnectExceptionToSQLServerException(SQLServerException.java:277)
     at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SocketFinder.findSocket(IOBuffer.java:2379)
     at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.TDSChannel.open(IOBuffer.java:652)
     at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerConnection.connectHelper(SQLServerConnection.java:2379)
     at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerConnection.login(SQLServerConnection.java:2042)
     at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerConnection.connectInternal(SQLServerConnection.java:1889)
     at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerConnection.connect(SQLServerConnection.java:1120)
     at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver.connect(SQLServerDriver.java:700)
     at com.zaxxer.hikari.util.DriverDataSource.getConnection(DriverDataSource.java:95)
     at com.zaxxer.hikari.util.DriverDataSource.getConnection(DriverDataSource.java:101)
     at com.zaxxer.hikari.pool.PoolBase.newConnection(PoolBase.java:346)
     at com.zaxxer.hikari.pool.PoolBase.newPoolEntry(PoolBase.java:196)
     at com.zaxxer.hikari.pool.HikariPool.createPoolEntry(HikariPool.java:442)
     at com.zaxxer.hikari.pool.HikariPool.access$200(HikariPool.java:73)
     at com.zaxxer.hikari.pool.HikariPool$PoolEntryCreator.call(HikariPool.java:620)
     at com.zaxxer.hikari.pool.HikariPool$PoolEntryCreator.call(HikariPool.java:606)
     at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
     at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
     at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
     ... 1 more

Environment

  • Liferay DXP 7.1
  • MS SQL Server

Resolution

  • "TCP/IP connection to the host Failed" error will be observed on Liferay logs when Liferay is trying to connect to the configured database(SQL SERVER) but, unfortunately, the DB server is not up or unavailable due to any of the below reasons
    1) A firewall is blocking the incoming connection
    2) SQL SERVER is not running on the host
    3) The configured port is not correct, i.e. it's not 1433
  • Therefore the issue is not with Liferay rather on the database. Connecting with the Database team along with the network team would help to stabilize the database server as well as the connection between Liferay and the database.

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