Spotfire Statistics Services : Invalid port number error in a clustered setup using external database

When configuring a clustered Spotfire Statistical Services setup, you may get an "Invalid port number" error.

This error will be seen in the SplusServer.log as a stack trace.

Solution

The error is usually caused by an invalid database URL. This is specified by the database.url
parameter in the database.properties file. Contrary to what is written the installation manual, the format of this parameter should be

database.url=jdbc:oracle:thin:@hostname:1521:INSTANCE