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Installing JIRA and Confluence on private LAN
Asked by Theron McDaniel:

I'm trying to get JIRA and Confluence installed on a local machine on our private LAN so our small team of developers can use the tools. However, Confluence won't let me connect to the JIRA server. If I set the JIRA Base URL to [http://hostpcname:8080](http://hostpcname:8080,) and then enter that in the JIRA Base URL field when setting up Confluence, it says: "This is not a valid URL for JIRA 4.3 or later." I've been following along with the instructions of your Dragon tutorial and this is where I get stuck.

The host pc does not have a webserver installed, but I am still able to access JIRA and Confluence from another PC on the network by entering in the base URL and port or even using the machine's static IP address, but I can't get Confluence to use either of them to connect to JIRA. We have no intentions to open this up to the outside world so I wasn't intending to install a webserver at this time. Unless that's the only way to successfully complete this step.


Answers:
author: Theron McDaniel
body: This seemed to be an issue with either the previous releases or running them both on the same VM. Installing the current versions of both on a standalone laptop running Windows Vista fixed the problem.


author: Ryan Goodwin
body: Confluence and JIRA standalone versions both come with tomcat configured to respond to web requests, you do not need separate webserver. You will need both of the machines configured to have the ports open so that other machines on the network can reach them. Can you telnet from confluence to jira? I would do normal network troubleshooting to ensure the confluence machine can reach the jira machine.  

See here for more information regarding the message you received.

<https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/56176/trying-to-install-confluence-for-jira-getting-an-error-not-valid-url>


Tags: confluence-administration

jira

jira-administration
Joomla and Wordpress migration to Confluence
Asked by fhatton:

Hi guys,

I have to migrate a Joomla and a Wordpress website into Confluence.

Any idea for doig this???

Best regards ;)


Answers:
author: Josch Bencke
body: Question is, what you wish to conserve: The main advantage (to me )of a wiki is the crosslinking and the tagging of content. Those two are not ea?y to carry over. Also, the names of the wikipages must be unique, something not needed with wordpress and joomla.Easiestbway: export all contents and merge it into a big wordfile, the do a wordfile import. Tags and links will break, however.Second approach, maybe you can find a cms2mediawiki export, them use the UWC to import the mediawikipagesThird approach: domyour ownWith confluence 3, it was possible to write the files via webdav quite easily. With the new xmlbased storageformat, you need to check that.My approach would be: create an exporter, which writes the cmstitles comtent into a list of "contenttitles" and tags for mapping. Go through the list and add a second column with Wkipermittable names OR an IGNORE marker. In a second run, let the exporter write all cmsdocs, which dont have the IGNOREmarker, into textfiles, renaming the pages and converting interpage links based on the list in the process.Simple import: push the textfiles (maybe structured in folders for hierarchy) via webdav onto the systemBetter: use the commandline interface to create pages and tagg them correctly via a scriptLast but not least: donate your script to the commnity public :D


author: Erik Saline [BlackPearl PDM]
body: You can uses WebDAV in Confluence, if you can get Joomla or Wordpress to export the pages you can easily upload them to Confluence via WebDAV.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+a+WebDAV+client+for+Confluence>


author: HungD
body: This is interesting question. I am looking for the same solution. Have anyone made a plugin for Joomla, WP?


author: Stefan Kleineikenscheidt _K15t_
body: Once you've imported to Confluence and miss the theming capabilities, check out [Scroll Viewport](http://www.k15t.com/software/scroll-viewport/overview). It provides for simple content theming for Confluence (no need to deal with overly complex Confluence theming infrastructure).


author: fhatton
body: Ok, I will try to do this...

Ty Josch.

Cheers.
What is the datasoucename?
Asked by David Morrissette:

Hi, Confluence was installed on a Linux server, linked to a SQL database. The Linux server had an issue and Confluence will no longer run. We are getting away from Linux and have no experience in managing it. Have decided to move Confluence to a Windows 2012 server, but I am stuck at the "datasourcename".


Answers:
author: rambabu patina
body: **Datasource Name** --- The JNDI name of the datasource, as configured in the application server.  
Note: Some servers will have JNDI names like `jdbc/datasourcename`; others will be of the form`java:comp/env/jdbc/datasourcename`. Consult your application-server documentation.

For example: Datasource names will be decide in **\<install-dir\>/conf/server.xml**

In that we have like `<``Resource``name``=``"jdbc/`**myDS**`"`  
` ``auth``=``"Container"`  
` ``type``=``"javax.sql.DataSource"`  
` ``username``=``"confluence"`  
` ``password``=``"confluence"`  
` ``maxActive``=``"100"`  
` ``maxIdle``=``"10"`  
` ``driverClassName``=``"org.postgresql.Driver"`  
` ``url``=``"jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/mydatabase"`  
` ``validationQuery``=``"Select 1"`  
`/>`  
Then here "myDS" is the data source name. [See](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+a+SQL+Server+Datasource+in+Apache+Tomcat#ConfiguringaSQLServerDatasourceinApacheTomcat-Step3.ConfigureTomcat)  
Thanks,  
Patina

comments: author: rambabu patina
body: Feel free to mark it as answer if the answer helps you.


author: David Morrissette
body: Thanks Patina, I'm not sure if this helps or not, i'm not knowleable on Linux or Confluence, so this answer might as well be written in another language.
After restoring Confluence OnDemand to hosted, how to set up a system administrator user?
Asked by darcfinn:

I have restored my Confluence OnDemand backup onto a hosted Confluence 5.3.1 system. I followed the recommendations given by Atlassian (from OnDemand Admin console - Backup Manager - Going to a Self-Hosted Instance). Thereafter I followed the recommendations in "Restoring a site" (<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Restoring+a+Site>).

The restore went smoothly. After logging in again I could see all the content was come in, but links were not working due to the base url was set to localhost:8080 by the restore. I needed to change to base url to the correct server address and port. However, to do this you need to be a system administrator. On the OnDemand instances you are not allowed to set up your own system administrator, presumably for security reasons.

So - I'm in a deadlock here..!

My admin user is neither part of the confluence-administrator or the system-administrator role!

How can I make my admin user part of these groups, on a hosted solution?


Answers:
author: StevenA
body: Hi Dagfinn,

By log in Confluence using exsiting sysadmin account, you can also grant system administrator right to other users by reconfigring the global permissions.

Best Regards,

Steven


author: darcfinn
body: What I missed was the information about the default system admin user sysadmin / sysadmin. This is automatically added, it seems. By logging in with this user I was able to change the base url, of course. My bad.


author: darcfinn
body: Unfortunately, you don't get a sysadmin user with OnDemand. It is only available on the self-hosted version, because Atlassian don't want anyone to have access to advanced settings in the administration page that may harm or influence the stability of yours and other instances of Confluence OnDemand.


author: trish edwards
body: Hi Steven,

We have OnDemand and there \*is\* no sysadmin that we were given. How can I get one?

Thanks!

Trish

comments: author: darcfinn
body: Unfortunately, you don't get a sysadmin user with OnDemand. It is only available on the self-hosted version, because Atlassian don't want anyone to have access to advanced settings in the administration page that may harm or influence the stability of yours and other instances of Confluence OnDemand.


Tags: confluence-administration

confluence-cloud

confluence-server

system-administrator
Conveyed viewpage.action shows "View Page" button instead of "Edit" button in the upper right corner of a page
Asked by Stefan Lindner:

When conveying "viewpage.action" everything works as expected, besides when viewing a page now I no longer get the "Edit" button in the upper right corner, but instead a "View Page" button only. I noticed in page.vm and page.vmd files that a "mode" decides what is rendered there, but couldn't figure out why it changed due to my conveyed action.

The conveyor-config.xml contains the following:

```
&lt;conveyor-config&gt;    &lt;package-override name="pages" namespace="/pages"&gt;        &lt;action-override name="viewpage" class="my.package.actions.ViewPageOverrideAction" inherit="true"&gt;        &lt;/action-override&gt;     &lt;/package-override&gt;&lt;/conveyor-config&gt;
```

My ViewPageOverrideAction only adds text to the content of the page:

```
@Override    public String execute() throws Exception {        return super.execute();    }    @Override    @HtmlSafe    public String getPageXHtmlContent() {        String pageXHtmlContent = super.getPageXHtmlContent();        return pageXHtmlContent + "I was added";    }
```

Why is it that I get the "View Page" button instead of the "Edit" button. How can I fix it? Any help would be appreciated.


Answers:
author: Stefan Lindner
body: Problem was that a method in ViewPageAction checks for the ViewPageClass.class. Solution is to override that method and exchange the class.

```
@Override    public WebInterfaceContext getWebInterfaceContext() {        DefaultWebInterfaceContext result = new DefaultWebInterfaceContext(super.getWebInterfaceContext());        List&lt;Label&gt; labels = getPage() == null ? Collections.&lt;Label&gt; emptyList() : getPage().getLabelsForDisplay(                getRemoteUser());        result.setParameter("labels", labels);        if (getClass().equals(ViewPageOverrideAction.class))            result.setParameter(ViewingContentCondition.CONTEXT_KEY, Boolean.TRUE);        return result;    }
```


author: Stefan Lindner
body: ```
Problem was that the WebInterfaceContext checks for the ViewPageAction.class. Overriding the following method and entering the ViewPageOverrideAction.class solves the problem.
```


Tags: conveyor
Multi instance deployment on single server
Asked by Rob Khamas:

Hi all, doing a little more research on the products here. Is it possible to deploy multiple instances on the same application server? The instances need to be completely different and seperated in the sense that we will have different business sectors logging in to access their own portal, data, settings, etc..

Rather than an app server for each instance we would like to make the management easier by having all instanced on the one server.

Cheers,


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Atlassian explicitly states that you should not run Jira and Confluence in the same Tomcat.

I'd strongly recommend keeping each application in dedicated app servers irrespective of what they actually are. If nothing else, the ability to stop and maintain one application without affecting another one is very important, and when you've got more than one in a container, you're asking for configuration/library conflicts and it's almost impossible to do much in the way of tuning.

comments: author: Renjith Pillai
body: +1, As Nick said please do not have the apps in the same application server.
Product Requirements Blueprint
Asked by david stutzman:

Is the "Product Requirements Blueprint" are feature of Confluence or JIRA Agile, etc. ?

Thanks, David


Answers:
author: david stutzman
body: In reviewing the website, the Product Requirements Blueprint feature appears on the Confluence pages, so I assume it is included in Confluence. It would speed my understanding of Confluence features to see a table of features to delineate included features and add-ons. If there is already such a table, I would like to know where to view it. Thx.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: I'm not sure I understand if there's actually a question here - your tags are spot on and answer the posted question in themselves. (A glance at the docs for the blueprint should also give you a lot more on top of confirming your tags are good)

comments: author: david stutzman
body: Thanks, Nic.


Tags: blueprint

requirement
User macro link broken on confluence
Asked by Rahul Aich [Nagra]:

HI

Since the past 2 days we see that the user macros link is broken. When i click on it i get a blank page on the browser saying that the webpage is not available.

We have not updated anything in the past 2-3 days.

Any ideas on how to get it back?

Rahul


Answers:
author: Rahul Aich [Nagra]
body: this was due to plugin cache getting corrupted.

fixed using this KB article

[https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Error+Loading+Macro+Browser+due+to+corrupted+plugin+cache?utm_source=STP\&utm_medium=logScan](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Error+Loading+Macro+Browser+due+to+corrupted+plugin+cache?utm_source=STP&utm_medium=logScan)

rahul


Tags: confluence-administration

macro

user-macro
IE9 running SSL - Strange behaviour
Asked by Nathaniel Martin:

Good afternoon,

We've had some difficulty with our confluence instance.

I've added the following to the server.xml file and it seemed to rectify the issues I was having with IE7/8 no problems:

\<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.authenticator.NonLoginAuthenticator" disableProxyCaching="true" securePagesWithPragma="false" /\>

However, users using IE9 experience an entirely different problem:

1. Document is requested

2. Open prompt is clicked

3. Office 2010 requests authentication (doesn't happen in IE8)

4. Repeats request for Autentication

5. Document opens normally except for "Enable Editing" is an option.

6. When user clicks on "Enable Editing" the document is redirected back to a badly distorted confluence home page within the office application

This happens in Word, Excel and PowerPoint.   

It doesn't happen if I use Firefox / IE 8.   

Any ideas?

Thanks,   

Nathaniel.


Answers:
author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hey Nathaniel,  

Depending in which version of Confluence you're using, you may want to have a look in our Supported Platforms page, that way we can see if IE7 is a supported browser for it.  
To find the proper Supported plaform page, you just need to type the version of Confluence that you have there along with the name Support Platforms Confluence.  

I hope this helps.  

WZ
List of Confluence Users
Asked by Cheryl Schmelzer:

How can I generate just a list of users that have only Confluence access in an On-Demand instance that includes both JIRA and Confluence? When I use the user list macro, and specify the group "user", I get all users. Thank you.


Answers:
author: rambabu patina
body: Have a look on

[https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/143722/how-to-obtain-list-of-active-users-in-confluence](/questions/143722/how-to-obtain-list-of-active-users-in-confluence)

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Get+a+List+of+Active+Users+Counting+Towards+the+Confluence+License>

Regards,

Patina

comments: author: rambabu patina
body: Hi Cheryl,

Did you got solution to your question. If this answer helps you feel free to mark as answer.

Regards,

Patina
Error on confluence
Asked by Rahul Aich [Nagra]:

Hi

Since last two days i am getting an error on my dashboard on confluence

The license could not be verified: License Certificate has expired!

Now on googling i found that this is caused by customware plugins. And yes i do have 6 customware plugins installed but i have checked none of them have an expired licence.

Dont know how to progress on this.

Any ideas guys?

Rahul


Answers:
author: Rahul Aich [Nagra]
body: ONe of the plugins did not have a licence and after installing it , the error was fixed.

Rahul


author: Jeremy Largman
body: Without knowing much more, here's a quick troubleshooting step. In the plugin console (Admin \>\> Plugins) you can disable and re-enable the plugin, with a toggle. Is that feasible for you? It's also possible that there's a bug such that the messaging isn't dynamic, and re-enabling will actually solve the problem. Just an educated guess...


Tags: confluence-administration
bgcolor macro doesn't work after migration
Asked by Jason Turner:

I reciently migrate from Confluence OnDemand to Download. In the OnDemand version I had use of a macro called {bgcolor}. After the migration I see that macro on many of my pages, but instead of a color I see see the message "unknown: macro 'bgcolor' "  

I am running Confluence version 5.3-OD-11.

I suspect my instance of Confluence doesn't have the bgcolor macro installed. But I am not sure how to get it. When I migrated I installed and directed the latest OnDemand version of Confluence. So I would expect it to have all the same macros.

Any suggestions are apperciated.


Answers:
author: Jason Turner
body: After some more digging I discovered this maco was included in the OnDemand version of Confluence as part of the "Adaptavist Content Formatting Macros". This plugin didn't get installed with the OnDemand version of Confluence I installed locally. I have since downloaded the free version of this plugin from Adaptavist.
Sharepoint vs Confluence - Ability to create "Lists"?
Asked by wildest:

We are looking to dump an old version of Sharepoint in favor of a new platform for document management, collaboration, documentation etc.

We are a small team with a single product and all the product design etc functionality of Confluence combined with JIRA really appeals.

I believe we can replace our current Sharepoint with Confluence completely except for one feature - creating lists.

In sharepoint we have the ability to create a "list" and define a subset of columns for the associated items.

I can't find such a feature in Confluence, does one exist?

Note; I'm aware we can embed some Sharepoint content into Confluence but that's not what I'm looking for. If we go with Confluence, the server containing Sharepoint will be promptly submerged in the nearest body of water.

Tom


Answers:
author: Josch Bencke
body: Hi, all Lists, i ever needed, i did with the "checklists macro" plugin or Excel. I heard of some reportingplugins beeing used for lists as well and there might be a dedicated list/table plugin out there, that i am not aware of. For starters, check out the documentation to the checklistsmacro from comalech.One sidecomment: check out the "technical writers tutorials" and blogs from Mrs. Maddox. She has lots of valuable insights Bout organizing techdokumentation o confluence.Enjoy


author: BillA
body: The closest thing we have to SharePoint lists in Confluence is the [Page Properties Report](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Page+Properties+Report+Macro). To get a good sense for how the page properties report works, check out the [Product Requirements Blueprint](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Product+Requirements+Blueprint).

comments: author: wildest
body: Hi Bill,  
Thanks for the feedback. I think that almost get's us to where we need to be.

The lack of filtering might hurt a little, but I think this might help close the gap!


author: wildest
body: Hi Bill,  
Thanks for the feedback. I think that almost get's us to where we need to be.

The lack of filtering might hurt a little, but I think this might help close the gap!


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Problems in loading Confluence pages in issues of a Jira Project
Asked by Tecsidel Tecsidel:

Jira in v5.2.11 and Confluence v5.3.1.

We have made an integration between both systems but we are not able to load from a Jira Project the pages which are concern for the person assign to that issue.

1st problem: The issues links, the "Confluence Page" is mention as a "Wiki Page" instead of a Confluence Page. and reporting that the user has not permisson (but the link works)

2nd problem:When an issue link is reported from Jira to Confluence, the screen for searching a Confluence page is overworked trying to load.

The JIRA's permission scheme, Confluence's spaces and pages are correctly validated.

Jira and Confluence Users are validated with our LDAP. RPC is enabled.

Application links are correctly established between both systems.

Waiting for you feedback. And thanks in advanced!!


Answers:
author: Ryan Goodwin
body: My guess here is there is network inteference due to a proxy config. I would try recreating the application links using ip:port for the application URLs and your resolvable proxy urls for the display url. Both of these fields are found in the application link edit screen. Note that you cannot edit the application URL. You will have to delete the applink and recreate it using the ip:port for application URLs. Be sure to use the ip:port on the reciprocal link that gets created in step 2 as this will usually resolve to the proxy url.
Space XML Export hanging - Confluence 4.2
Asked by Darryl Lucas:

When I try to export a Confluence 4.2 space to XML, the progress meter stops and Conf becomes unreachable to other users. Any ideas are welcome.

Thanks

\~Darryl


Answers:
author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hi Darryl,  

You have mentioned the following:

"the progress meter stops and Conf becomes unreachable"  

Considering the affimartion above as a fact, I believe you could be running out of the memory, when you're trying to export, which it could be normal as this process requires a lot of JVM memory. Being that said, you may want to follow the steps from the following documentation in our order to increase the JVM memory:  

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/How+to+Fix+Out+of+Memory+Errors+by+Increasing+Available+Memory#HowtoFixOutofMemoryErrorsbyIncreasingAvailableMemory-Step2:IncreaseAvailableMemory>  

I hope this helps.  
WZ


author: Matthew J. Horn
body: We've found that the most reliable way to export is to do a database dump and avoid Confluence's export altogether. Of course, this is for backup/restore. One thing you can do is uncheck the option to include attachments. Attachments (and their versions) can take up a large amount of space.


Tags: confluence-administration
Import from Robohelp to Confluence 5.3
Asked by Lynne Wilton:

Could anyone help with the best method for importing documentation from Robohelp 10 to Confluence 5.3. Thanks.


Answers:
author: Kirstin Seidel-Gebert
body: Last year we faced the same problem ([Advice on how to import a product documentation created with RoboHelp into Confluence](../66554/advice-on-how-to-import-a-product-documentation-created-with-robohelp-into-confluence "Advice on how to import a product documentation created with RoboHelp into Confluence")).

We finally exported from RoboHelp to Word and imported the Word document into Confluence. However, with this approach I had to rework all pages, because the images where missing. This might be different now with Confluence 5.

comments: author: Lynne Wilton
body: Hi Kirstin, thanks for your reply.

I have tried the Word to Confluence method and it looks ok. I was ideally looking to import HTML and have less manual tweaking of the documentation after import.


author: Lynne Wilton
body: Hi Kirstin, thanks for your reply.

I have tried the Word to Confluence method and it looks ok. I was ideally looking to import HTML and have less manual tweaking of the documentation after import.