Page Comparison

Confluence is an Atlassian documentation tool oriented for enterprise teams. It is a technical and procedural documentation repository and integrates with UConn's Atlassian JIRA instance.

Confluence URLs

PRODUCTION: https://confluence.uconn.edu

TEST: https://confluencetest.uits.uconn.edu

Confluence Home and Application Directories

/srv/confluence_home

Contains "confluence.cfg.xml" with general instance configuration properties

/opt/atlassian/confluence-5.5.2

(Contains runtime files including .bin)

Tomcat Configuration

The Confluence instance has it's deployment descriptor and additional configuration handled by the Tomcat instance.

The files /etc/tomcat6/server.xml and /etc/tomcat6/Catalina/localhost/confluence.xml both contain the context path for the app.

This context path is set to the application root for the URL and is represented as "" because Tomcat has issues parsing the value "/" via the config.

<Context path="" docBase="/opt/atlassian/confluence_distros/confluence-5.5.2/confluence" debug="0" reloadable="true"></Context>

Confluence Startup/Shutdown Commands for UConn Environment

sudo /sbin/service tomcat start

sudo /sbin/service tomcat stop