Correct Rebooting of Confluence

[Jiri Pik]

If I reboot Confluence as 

shutdown -r now

in most cases the Confluence does not start itself and in the logs, there are refused database connection errors and some locking problems.

If I shutdown Confluence before and then reboot, it starts without problems.

I run Confluence on PostgreSql AWS RDS so these problems are common.

Are there any special suffices to database connection strings which would mitigate these problems?

[Josh Steckler]

Hi Jiri,

What you're doing is rebooting the server that Confluence runs on, not the application itself. You should stop the Confluence service using the instructions on this page https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/start-and-stop-confluence-838416264.html

Then if you need to reboot the server, do that after stopping the service.

You can also look at this page to see how to start confluence automatically on system boot: https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/start-confluence-automatically-on-linux-183148.html

-Josh