Attachments are showing up in bin directory on RHEL
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Summary
Uploaded attachments to Confluence pages are being saved to Confluence's /opt/confluence/X/bin directory.
Environment
Confluence Data Center 8.1.3
Confiforms 3.5.5
Diagnosis
Run the stat command on the server to get full information on the last changes on the file system level to the attachment
Example output
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$ stat FileName.pdf
File: FileName.pdf
Size: x Blocks: x IO Block: x regular file
Device: x/x Inode: x Links: x
Access: (0644/rw-rr-) Uid: (x/ cedt) Gid: (x/ cedt)
Context: system_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0
Access: 2024-02-18 01:20:45.259875980 -0400
Modify: 2024-02-18 01:20:45.126874120 -0400
Change: 2024-02-18 01:20:45.126874120 -0400
Birth: -
(...)Around the same time, in Confluence's access log files, we can see the following entry:
conf_access.log
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[18/Feb/2024:01:20:37 -0400] username Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 IP_Address POST POST /confluence/ajax/confiforms/applyrules.action?fld=priority HTTP/1.0 151 200 121 http-nio-8080-exec-33And on the application logs:
atlassian-confluence.log
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2024-02-18 01:20:55,480 WARN [http-nio-8080-exec-51 url: /confluence/ajax/confiforms/trysave.action; user: username] [internal.content.collab.ReconcileReferringContentTask] getShouldIncludeOwnContent Could not find shouldIncludeOwnContentMap for Content ID x but will reconcile anyway
-- page: x | referer: BaseURL/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?spaceKey=KEY&title=NAME | traceId: xxxxx | userName: username | action: trysave | url: /confluence/ajax/confiforms/trysave.actionCause
There is a known issue with Confiforms on version 3.5.5 that affects the behavior of the attachments on Confluence and causes them to be written in the bin directory.
Solution
Upgrade Confiforms to the latest version available.
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