Upgrade Fails due to File System Permissions

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Symptoms

Upgrading Confluence fails and an error similar to the following is found in the atlassian-confluence.log file.

SEVERE: Error initializing endpoint
java.net.BindException: Permission denied:80
	at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.initEndpoint(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:298)
...
2008-01-14 18:15:32,087 ERROR [main] [com.atlassian.upgrade.AbstractUpgradeManager] doUpgrade Upgrade failed: Couldn't save confluence.cfg.xml to /apps/confluence-home directory.
com.atlassian.config.ConfigurationException: Couldn't save confluence.cfg.xml to /apps/confluence-home directory.
	at com.atlassian.config.xml.AbstractDom4jXmlConfigurationPersister.saveDocument(AbstractDom4jXmlConfigurationPersis
...
Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /apps/confluence-home/confluence.cfg.xml (Permission denied)
	at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(Native Method)
	at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:179)
	at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:131)
	at com.atlassian.core.util.Dom4jUtil.saveDocumentTo(Dom4jUtil.java:27)

Cause

This occurs when the operating system user running Confluence has inadequate write permissions to the Confluence home directory

Resolution

Ensure that the operating system user running Confluence has full read/write permissions to the Confluence home directory

Last modified on Nov 2, 2018

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