Revision as of 15:33, 24 September 2018

Installing | Database Server Installation

Operating System

I chose CentOS 7 x64 with 1 CPU, 1GB RAM, 20GB HDD, which PostgreSQL should run fine on.

Package Installations

reference here: https://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/redhat/
I installed the following initial packages, going with Postgres 9.6 b/c that was the highest supported version for Confluence.

~$ sudo yum update && sudo yum upgrade -y
~$ sudo yum install -y vim https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/9.6/redhat/rhel-7-x86_64/pgdg-centos96-9.6-3.noarch.rpm 
~$ sudo yum install -y postgresql96 postgresql96-server

Initialize DB and enable autostart

~$ sudo /usr/pgsql-9.6/bin/postgresql96-setup initdb
~$ sudo systemctl enable postgresql-9.6
~$ sudo systemctl start postgresql-9.6

Verify installation

~$ sudo -u postgres /usr/pgsql-9.6/bin/psql -c "SELECT version();"

User/DB Configuration

very basic, lets create a user and db

~$ sudo -u postgres /usr/pgsql-9.6/bin/psql -c "create database confluence_db;"
~$ sudo -u postgres /usr/pgsql-9.6/bin/psql -c "create user confluence_user with encrypted password 'Password1';"
~$ sudo -u postgres /usr/pgsql-9.6/bin/psql -c " grant all privileges on database confluence_db to confluence_user;"

next let's adjust postgresql so that you can connect to it and authenticate with a password (by default it authenticates based on the current logged in linux user without a password)

~$ sudo vim /var/lib/pgsql/9.6/data/postgresql.conf
uncomment:
listen_addresses = 'localhost'
port = 5432
authentication_timeout = 1min
~$ sudo vim /var/lib/pgsql/9.6/data/pg_hba.conf
change the following from ident to password authentication:
...
# IPv6 local connections:
host    all             all             ::1/128                 password
...

restart to implement changes and test connection

~$ sudo systemctl restart postgresql-9.6
~$ psql -h localhost -d confluence_db -U confluence_user -W
Password for user confluence_user: