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Ideally your system should have about 1 GB of memory set aside for Confluence.
Install Required Dependent OS Packages
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Also, keep a page listing any plug-ins you install. Upgrades generally do not require you to reinstall the plugins but they might be deprecated. After the upgrade is done, login as Administrator on Confluence and ensure plug-ins are up to date.
Our recommended list of plugins,
- Gliffy - Draw Visio like diagrams right in the browser
Check Administration Console
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Confluence Customizations
Change favicon.ico
Currently, Confluence does not provide an easy way to change the favicon.ico that will persist after an upgrade. If you want this feature, vote for this request on Jira. Otherwise, a good solution may be implemented using Apache's mod_rewrite.
Enable mod_rewrite
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Edit your virtual host file adding the following after the JKMount points,
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JkMount /wiki tomcat_confluence_a_worker
# Rewrite for favicon.ico
RewriteRule ^/wiki/favicon.ico$ /favicon.ico |
Make sure to change /wiki/ if you decided to deviate from this tutorial.
System Profile
Using htop, initial setup without any spaces created is 396MB. The process itself uses VIRT=913M and RES=338M.
Properties for Solaris and Unix there appears to be a requirement for valid X11 font directories