Has anyone been able to install Confluence 8.5.5 on Linux

[Chris Kent]

I get installer failures, trying to write into folders the installer creates.

Seems every folder has the wrong permissions.

Does anyone else have this problem?

Is there an easy fix rather than waiting for Atlassian?

[Sylvain Leduc]

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-94104

[BHUSHAN PATIL]

Hi @Chris Kent ,

This issue might be related to the permissions of the folders created by the installer. Here are some steps you can try to resolve the issue:

Run the installer with root privileges: You can try running the installer with root privileges or using the 'sudo' command

Check the permissions of the user running the installer: During installation it will automatically create confluence user in linux. Ensure that the confluence user has the necessary permissions to create and modify files in the directories where Confluence will be installed. You can check the permissions of the user by running the command in the terminal.

• ls -lah /Installation_directory' 
• ls -lah /home_directory'  

Change the permissions of the directories: If the permissions of the directories are not correct, you can change them using the 'chown' command. For example,

• sudo chown -R confluence:confluence  /Installation_directory
• sudo chown -R confluence:confluence /home_directory

Replace/Installation_directory and/home_directory path with your actual path.

Also, if you feel my input help you please accept the answer.

Regards,
Bhushan

[Chris Kent]

Hi,

I have been installing and maintaining Confluence for over 20 years, this is the first time that root permissions are required to install, and if this is so, then this goes against all our internal security policies and we can't use a root account for Apps, nor can we install using sudo.

All versions up to 8.5.4 could be installed as non-root user - why has 8.5.5 changed?

As for security, this increases the security risk of the App if it needs admin permissions to install and run, we can't let that happen, especially on public-facing installations.

I cannot accept your answer for these reasons.

Atlassian actually needs to fix this bug.

[Klaus Wagner]

Went with the tar.gz version this time, but there is another issue with 8.5.5 for us: The saved for later page in your profile, if at least 1 page last modified by another person is tracked, only shows an error page due to a stack overflow exception.

I opt to skip 8.5.5 since our install is not available publicly.

[chihara]

Addition to Bhushan, check /install_directory/bin/user.sh which shows who is owner of process/directories.