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VMware | 97207
"Illegal character in hostname at index 33" error reported on the Cloud Director cell after upgrading Cloud Director
Last update date:
4/4/2024
Affected products:
Cloud Director for Service Provider
Cloud Director
Affected releases:
10.5
Fixed releases:
No fixed releases provided.
Description:
Symptoms
When browsing the Cloud Director cell on the Cloud Director UI you see the error below: java.net.URISyntaxException: Illegal character in hostname at index X: wss://vcd_cell.example.com/messaging/mqtt - Illegal character in hostname at index X: wss://vcd_cell.example.com/messaging/mqtt On /opt/vmware/vcloud-director/logs/vcloud-container-info.log you have an error similar the one reported below: 2024-03-11 08:32:12,251 | ERROR | pool-jetty-150420 | DefaultExceptionMapper | Internal server exception | requestId=REQUEST_ID,request=GET https://vcloud.director,example.com/cloudapi/1.0.0/cells/urn:vcloud:cell:ID_OF_THE_VCD_CELL/accessEndpoints,requestTime=1710145932198,remoteAddress=VCD_CELL_IP_ADDRESS:20046,userAgent=Mozilla/5.0(Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 ...,accept=application/json;version 39.0.0-alpha java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: java.net.URISyntaxException: Illegal character in hostname at index X: wss://vcd_cell.example.com/messaging/mqtt....Caused by: java.net.URISyntaxException: Illegal character in hostname at index X: wss://vcd_cell.example.com/messaging/mqtt at java.base/java.net.URI$Parser.fail(URI.java:2913) at java.base/java.net.URI$Parser.parseHostname(URI.java:3448) at java.base/java.net.URI$Parser.parseServer(URI.java:3297) at java.base/java.net.URI$Parser.parseAuthority(URI.java:3216) at java.base/java.net.URI$Parser.parseHierarchical(URI.java:3158) at java.base/java.net.URI$Parser.parse(URI.java:3114) at java.base/java.net.URI.<init>(URI.java:685) at com.vmware.vcloud.api.presentation.entity.system.CellAccessSpec.<init>(CellAccessSpec.java:86) ... 165 more
Cause
The error occurs when the hostname of the Cell does not conform to the standards of RFC 2396.In this instance it was an underscore '_' which caused the issue.
Resolution
Change the Cloud Director cell hostname to remove the underscore character.The underscore character must not be present in the machine's hostname as per the documentation. https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Cloud-Director/10.5/VMware-Cloud-Director-Install-Configure-Upgrade-Guide/GUID-2E0538AF-CE67-46CB-8B3C-88E5AB8F6355.htmlThe hostnames of the VMware Cloud Director cells must not contain any underscores.
