504 Timeout On Database Install

[Kai]

Greetings,

I'm attempting to configure Confluence on my server and when I trigger the "Configuring Database" stage in the setup process, the page times out every time which then corrupts the install. In order to reset, I have to uninstall Confluence completely and reinstall. I've hit a brick wall in terms of understanding what I'm doing wrong.

Some notes:

I have JIRA running on the same server; the server itself has 8GB of RAM total.

I'm using PostgreSQL to manage the databases.

I have two separate databases (one for JIRA, and one for Confluence) and they are managed by dedicated users each. I am able to successfully connect to the confluence database user in setup.

I'm also using Nginx to proxy the port from localhost:10090 (a custom port that I set in the installation process) to {mydomain}/confluence and I've seemingly set the proper settings in the server.xml file as well as my Nginx conf file for the page. (It wouldn't show the configuration wizard if that part wasn't working). I'm also passing synchrony from port 10091... Though I'm not quite sure where that is set.

JIRA is setup the exact same way and it works great.

I have noticed something else though when starting up the confluence service, it takes about 5-10 mins before I can safely refresh the page to display the configuration wizard. If I try to refresh the page before then, I run the risk of triggering a "Spring Application has not been set" error.

The server is running Ubuntu 16.04

Thanks!

[Kai · Accepted solution]

I solved my own issue by increasing the timeout in Nginx and Confluence significantly and also disabling Cloudflare on the subdomain temporarily during setup.