Running Confluence as a Systemd Service on Linux

Related: Systemd - Creating .service Files

Pre-requisites

1. You already have Confluence installed and working, but you need it to function as a service (i.e. start on boot).
2. Your existing Confluence installation is running under a user other than root (we’ll assume the user is named ‘confluence’).

Solution

Login to the machine and elevate to the root user

sudo su

Create the following service config as root:

touch /lib/systemd/system/confluence.service
chmod 664 /lib/systemd/system/confluence.service

Edit the service config as root

vim /lib/systemd/system/confluence.service

Define the service config by putting this into confluence.service

[Unit]
Description=Confluence
After=network.target
After=postgresql.service
Requires=postgresql.service
 
[Service]
Type=forking
User=confluence
PIDFile=/opt/atlassian/confluence/work/catalina.pid
ExecStart=/opt/atlassian/confluence/bin/start-confluence.sh
ExecStop=/opt/atlassian/confluence/bin/stop-confluence.sh
TimeoutSec=200
LimitNOFILE=4096
LimitNPROC=4096
 
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

• User - the name of this user may vary in your environment
• PIDFile/ExecStart/ExecStop - change <Confluence-Installation-Directory> with the full path for your installation folder (e.g. /opt/atlassian-confluence-6.2.1 )
• WantedBy - /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/

update Systemd

systemctl daemon-reload

allowed commands

systemctl enable confluence.service
systemctl disable confluence.service
systemctl start confluence.service
systemctl stop confluence.service
systemctl restart confluence.service
systemctl status confluence.service