Not able to change the permission of the confluence home directory and install directory

[ilakkm]

I am facing a problem similar to the one given below in the final step of confluence setup:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/confluence-does-not-start-due-to-spring-application-context-has-not-been-set-218278311.html?_ga=2.192502703.485559645.1527950480-147492546.1504377717

I am trying to change the permissions on the confluence home directory and install directory using the following commands:

chown -R confluence.confluence <confluence-install-folder>
chown -R confluence.confluence <confluence-home-folder>
chmod -R u=rwx,go-rwx <confluence-install-folder>
chmod -R u=rwx,go-rwx <confluence-home-folder>

But I am not able to do so. I am getting 'Permission denied' message everytime.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Do you realy run Confluence as a user called confluence.confluence, or are you trying to set the ownership and group to confluence and confluence?

If you are trying to set ownership and group, try confluence:confluence instead, not a . to separate them.