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Step through the configuration wizard and make the following selections,

1. Choose Product Installation
2. Makes sure PostgreSQL is selected (it should be by default) click External Database.
3. Click Direct JDBC
4. Fill out the form,
   1. Database URL: Change the default line, jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/confluence to jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/confluencedb
   2. User: confluencedbuser
   3. Pass: the pasword you used earlier to create the confluencedb user
   4. Click Next

At this point if you happen to be monitoring your system you should see a spike in CPU and confluence slowly taking up more memory. Be patient as this step can take a few minutes.

The intial user will be called "Server Admin" with user name serveradmin

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Put instructions here about changing the base url if fronted by Apache.

Stopping the Service

There appears to be a problem with shutting down the Confluence server. According to Atlassian, this only happens on certain configuration and they are not able to determine yet why. I have personally experienced with every type of Virtualized Ubuntu system I have setup over the past few years.

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Once port 8009 is enabled, mod_jk can be enabled by following the Apache Tomcat Connector instructions.

Change Base Url in Confluence

Verify Internationalization Features

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