Spotfire Server: Could not create URI object: Illegal character in hostname at index ...

On attempting to access the newly installed server an error presents as follows with '404 File not found'

On inspecting the server.log the more descriptive error is observed:

ERROR 2018-01-22T10:17:40,092+0000 [*Initialization*] web.context.ContextLoader: Context initialization failed

org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'connectorConfiguration' defined in ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalStateException: Could not create URI object: Illegal character in hostname at index 15: http://spotfire_server/

Whilst it might be tempting to include a _ to make a hostname more readable it is an illegal character. Remove it to address the problem. Other illegal characters are outlined here:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/identity/naming-conventions-for-computer-domain-site-ou