"Invalid host name" warning message found in logs

Note: please note that Liferay has renamed its Liferay Experience Could offerings to Liferay SaaS (formerly LXC) and Liferay PaaS (formerly LXC-SM).

Issue

• While checking the logs of the Liferay service you can notice the following trace:

Aug 21 10:45:46.359 build-3452 liferay[liferay-6c578d49fc-l5irf] java.lang.RuntimeException: Invalid host name example-dev.organization.com
at com.liferay.portal.servlet.filters.validhostname.ValidHostNameFilter.doFilterTry(ValidHostNameFilter.java:31)
at com.liferay.portal.kernel.servlet.filters.invoker.InvokerFilterChain.processDirectCallFilter(InvokerFilterChain.java:185)
at com.liferay.portal.kernel.servlet.filters.invoker.InvokerFilterChain.doFilter(InvokerFilterChain.java:90)
at com.liferay.portal.kernel.servlet.filters.invoker.InvokerFilter.doFilter(InvokerFilter.java:95)
at com.liferay.shielded.container.internal.proxy.FilterWrapper.doFilter(FilterWrapper.java:69)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:178)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:153)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:167)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:90)
at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:481)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:130)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:93)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteIpValve.invoke(RemoteIpValve.java:768)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:74)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:343)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.service(Http11Processor.java:390)
at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProcessorLight.process(AbstractProcessorLight.java:63)
at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$ConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:926)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.Nio2Endpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(Nio2Endpoint.java:1713)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.SocketProcessorBase.run(SocketProcessorBase.java:52)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AbstractEndpoint.processSocket(AbstractEndpoint.java:1265)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.Nio2Endpoint.setSocketOptions(Nio2Endpoint.java:339)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.Nio2Endpoint$Nio2Acceptor.completed(Nio2Endpoint.java:479)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.Nio2Endpoint$Nio2Acceptor.completed(Nio2Endpoint.java:415)
at java.base/sun.nio.ch.Invoker.invokeUnchecked(Invoker.java:127)
at java.base/sun.nio.ch.Invoker$2.run(Invoker.java:219)
at java.base/sun.nio.ch.AsynchronousChannelGroupImpl$1.run(AsynchronousChannelGroupImpl.java:112)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1191)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:659)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:829)

 

Environment

• Liferay SaaS
• Liferay PaaS

Resolution

• This warning message appears when a domain isn’t configured to be used on any of the existing Virtual Instances yet.
• As we need to add a custom domain on the Webserver’s LCP.json before this domain is set on a Virtual Instance, the DXP will throw this message warn that the hostname is not being used to “point” to any Virtual Instance.
• Once that domain is configured on the site level in DXP, the errors won't occur anymore
• Note that those WARN messages on their own won't cause any issues.

 

Additional Information

• Updated Portal Property Default Values for Virtual Hosts