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This article is in process of being moved over from my Google Sites wiki |
Install Required Libraries
In order to render thumbnails ect... you need certain x-windows libraries. Refer to the list from the Confluence install instructions and make sure to use the list matching your version of Confluence.
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Because the list changes between each release, I recommend documenting what you installed. Then when upgrading, remove all the required libraries from the previous Confluence release and then installing the required libraries for the new Confluence release. |
PostgreSQL
Confluence comes with its own embedded database called hsqldb. However, for real production use you should use a full fledged database.
Install PostgreSQL on Ubuntu
Install PostgreSQL6.0 PostgreSQL on Ubuntu.
Install Confluence
Core Package
Download the tar.gz install package and decompress it,
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su - bhitch # log in as a staff user that can run sudo cd /opt # make a symbolic link which scripts and commands can run against sudo ln -s ./confluence-3.2-std ./confluence |
Manually Setup JRE
I use a manual Java setup with an instance of Java specifically for the application.
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cd /home/serveradmin sudo mv ./jre1.6.0_16/ /opt/confluence/java |
Configure Confluence to Use JRE
The downloaded Confluence package is powered by Tomcat. You can specify Tomcat use a specific java directory by creating a setenv file as described at Running Tomcat with a specific JRE version.
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Take from Tomcat 6 instructions, but pull out into separate page. |
Configure Data Directory
Also we need to create the home directory,
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# confluence.home=c:/confluence/data |
Configure PostgreSQL
These are abridged instructions from Confluences wiki on setting up an external database.
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First log into the PostgreSQL prompt as explain in PostgreSQL on Ubuntu\.
Create the confluence database admin account,CREATE ROLE confluencedbuser LOGIN ENCRYPTED PASSWORD 'putYourPasswordHere'
NOINHERIT
VALID UNTIL 'infinity';
COMMENT ON ROLE confluencedbuser IS 'Account used by the Confluence application.';
Create the database.
CREATE DATABASE confluencedb
WITH ENCODING='UTF8'
OWNER=confluencedbuser
CONNECTION LIMIT=-1;
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First delete the jdbc3 driver,rm /opt/confluence/confluence/WEB-INF/lib/postgresql-8.4-701.jdbc3.jar
Then, place the JDBC Driver postgresql-8.4-701.jdbc4.jar into the <confluence-install-path>/confluence/WEB-INF/lib folder.
Starting the Confluence Service
We will now start Confluence for the first time to initialize everything.
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- Choose custom
- Makes sure PostgreSQL is selected (it should be by default) click External Database.
- Direct JDBC
- Fill out the form,
- Database URL: Change the default line, jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/confluence to jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/confluencedb
- User: confluencedbuser
- Pass: the pasword you used earlier to create the user
- The intial user will be called "Server Admin" with user name serveradmin
Optimize Confluence
There are some basic tasks we should do before getting other people on board.
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- disable automatic backup
- setup the mail
Connect Apache to Confluence using Mod_JK
To connect Apache to Confluence see my article ...
Stoping the Service
There appears to be a problem with shutting down the server. Read up on this. What I currently do is check to see if the service is running,
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