Trying to sort out our Confluence wiki web access (talking out) I broke it. hard.
Changed a config file (one line) and tested it, carelessly running the daemon from its startup script (prototypical for this product in testing) BUT I was still root. This rewrote a bunch of file perms in the web root resulting in a successful start but a very dead web server.
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I should have switched to the user but I just missed a step, because the script does not switch user, it relies on the service manager to do that.
@sullybiker ...HENNYMORE!
Or, in this case,the absent minded admin...