If you’ve ever administered the enterprise collaboration software/wiki known as “Confluence” then you have most likely encountered it’s issues with having SELinux enabled on the same machine. Any documentation on the confluence website points to completely disabling SELinux when installing Confluence and offers no remedies otherwise.

Well for some of us, this just simply is not an option. After much debugging, log monitoring, tinkering, etc… last night I found the method to get SELinux to play nice with Confluence. So I thought I would share to steps for all those out there looking to do the same:

ASSUMPTIONS (This is based on the configuration I was working with, yours may differ):