Connecting confluence to Postgres database error

Ranga vittal_0bheyk

Have hosted Confluence on Docker container and Postgres on another container. Both the containers are up and running. When I try to test the connection it says '

Can't reach database server or port

SQLState - 08001
org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: The connection attempt failed.'

The IP address is correctly entered

I have exposed port 5432

Anything that I have missed?

Rafael Pinto Sperafico

Hi @Ranga vittal ,

Are you running Confluence and Postgres from the same Docker, meaning that they are on the same box session? If so, Confluence should be able to connect to PostgreSQL when providing its container's name.

As a suggestion, you could create a Network in docker so you do not face issues of getting a different IP every time your containers are started. Without a static IP, when starting a container, you may get a different IP address depending on the order of events.

# create a Docker network
docker network create \
--driver bridge \
--subnet=10.10.0.0/16 \
myNetwork

For PostgreSQL and Confluence you could do the following:

# create a PostgreSQL docker container
docker run -d \
--restart=unless-stopped \
--network myNetwork \
--ip 10.10.1.2 \
--name postgres96 \
--hostname postgres \
-p 5432:5432 \
-e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=mysecretpassword \
-e PGDATA=/var/lib/postgresql/data/pgdata \
-v /path/postgres/9.6:/var/lib/postgresql/data/pgdata \
-d postgres:9.6

# create a Confluence docker container
docker run -d --init \
--network myNetwork \
--ip 10.10.2.2 \
--name confluence667 \
--hostname confluence \
-p 8090:8090 \
-v /path/confluence/6.6.7:/var/atlassian/application-data/confluence \
atlassian/confluence-server:6.6.7

 Then connect Confluence by providing the PostgreSQL name parameter (e.g postgres96)

<property name="hibernate.connection.url">
jdbc:postgresql://postgres96:5432/confluence667
</property>

Hope the above helps.

Kind regards,
Rafael