Searching the internet, this seems to be a common error. I have tried the solutions suggested on the internet, but none of them solve this problem. Where should the alfresco-global.properties file be located? I have it under c:\software\tomcat\apache-tomcat-8.5.61\shared\classes\ Any suggestions how to fix this problem?
I have configured my database in this file. I am also seeing other errors on the tomcat command line when I start tomcat:
Caused by: javax.xml.parsers.FactoryConfigurationError: Provider for class javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory cannot be created
Caused by: java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: org/alfresco/util/log/log4j/SanitizingPatternLayout has been compiled by a more recent version of the Java Runtime (class file version 55.0), this version of the Java Runtime only recognizes class file versions up to 52.0 (unable to load class [org.alfresco.util.log.log4j.SanitizingPatternLayout])
java.lang.IllegalStateException: ContainerBase.addChild: start: org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component [StandardEngine[Catalina].StandardHost[localhost].StandardContext[/alfresco]]
org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor Error deploying deployment descriptor