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Problem installing locally Confluence 3.0.2
Asked by Carlos Reyes:

G'Day Gurus,

I am trying to install an evaluation license of Confluence 3.0.2 in my Windows 7 personal machine but when I finish the installation wizard then I get "Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at localhost:8001"

If I try to start the service manually then I get

![](../../upfiles/Confluence_service_error.JPG)

The event log do not give me any extra clue.

I appreciate any assistance to help me to install and run Confluence 3.0.2 in my local machine

We are runing Confluence 4.3.2 but I have a Space export from a Confluence 3.0.2 instance which I want to import in my machine then upgarde to v4.3.2 so I can place in our Production instance. Anyway, I am stuck in the early stage

Regards

Carlos


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: If you go to Confluence_Home directory, you will find atlassian-confluence.log file under the logs folder. That should give you more details of the issue.

If the file is not created, you might find more information at Confluence_Install_Dir/logs/catalina.out.

comments: author: Carlos Reyes
body: Hi Jobin,

The error seems related to JAVA:

\[174 javajni.c\] \[error\] The specified module could not be found.  
\[2013-10-14 18:10:08\] \[986 prunsrv.c\] \[error\] Failed creating java

The whole log:

Any suggestions for me to try?

Regards

Carlos


author: Carlos Reyes
body: Picture with the log


author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Have you configured Java? Maybe this can help: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Installing+Java+for+Confluence>


author: Carlos Reyes
body: I had only JAVA JRE but notthe JDK. Now it is running fine

Thanks Jobin


Tags: confluence-administration
Videos not displaying in osx chrome
Asked by Matt Thorne:

Brand new installation of Confluence on-prem. When trying to view the intro video on the "you're new here" page, the video never loads (blank white box). Later during the tutorials, adding a video link just results in a blank white box. Does not repro in Safari. Using chrome 30.0.1599.69.


Answers:
author: Matt Thorne
body: This could be it:

\[blocked\] The page at [https://\<myserver\>/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=98310](https://w.pinadmin.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=98310) ran insecure content from [http://www.youtube.com/embed/sKxyGvMXdII](http://www.youtube.com/embed/sKxyGvMXdII "http://www.youtube.com/embed/sKxyGvMXdII").  


author: Daniel Wester
body: Not sure if that's something that can be resolved here -- have you filed a [support.atlassian.com](http://support.atlassian.com) support request?

Out of curiosity - do you get any javascript errors? Could it be a missing plugin in Chrome?
Report of enabled add-ons or macros in-use
Asked by John Alton:

Can anyone suggest some way (add-on? code?) to view a report that dynamically displays all uses of enabled add-ons / macros in a site?

I'm familiar with the search code snippet (macroName: \[name of macro\]\*), I'm looking for some way to list this information in a report format, generated by dropping a macro onto a page.

thanks,  
John


Answers:
author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: He is referring to [SQL Plugin for Confluence](https://bobswift.atlassian.net/wiki/display/SQL)


author: John Alton
body: Thanks, Doug.

We are currently using Confluence v4.1. We are in the process of upgrading to Confluence v5.2.3. Is "Play SQL Spreadsheets" the name of the plugin you mention?

thanks,  
John


author: JulianA
body: Hey John,

we have developed an Add-On for our confluence. Maybe this would be something for you, too. I have uploaded a screenshort here (<http://www.myimg.de/?img=pluginStatistics13c9b.png> ) to give you an impression.

Feel free to contact me by mail. (j.riedinger \[at\] c-p-systems.de)

Cheers Julian

comments: author: John Alton
body: Thanks, Julian.

Is it possible to render this in English, too? Cost associated with it?

thanks,  
John


author: JulianA
body: Hey John,

here a screen containing the english version of the plugin.

![](http://1.2.3.10/bmi/img19.myimg.de/1ad8d0.png)

For Confluence 5.x you can get it for free. You say above, you want to migrate from 4.1. If you want to use this plugin in that version of Confluence, we would have to downgrade our plugin, cause it isn't runnable on 4.1 currently.

In this case feel free to contact me by mail. (j.riedinger \[at\] c-p-systems.de) to get an offer.

Cheers Julian


author: JulianA
body: (<http://img19.myimg.de/1ad8d0.png>)


author: Doug Bass
body: This short-cut is probably too "short" but would you consider using the sql macro? If so what version of Confluence are you using?


Tags: app

confluence-administration

report
Confluence importing HTML
Asked by KP11:

We have about 500 HTML source code files we want to import to Confluence. Is there a quick way to import these files that contain PNG images in a batch process into a Dashboard or pages spaces with links intact?

I think this would be like a site import in the link: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=151106>

Some of the pages are old. Is there a free plugin that will do this or do we have to script?


Answers:
author: Mirko Skramusky
body: Hi, you can try it using the [Universal Wiki Converter](https://migrations.atlassian.net/wiki/display/UWC/Universal+Wiki+Converter). HTML pages can be imported via the [UWC Xml Converter](https://migrations.atlassian.net/wiki/display/UWC/UWC+Xml+Converter+Framework), but it seems a little bit complicated. :/

Hope this helps!

Regards, Mirko


Tags: import
Widget Connector (for youtube) has stopped working in Chrome 30 (30.0.1599.69 m)
Asked by Darryl Lucas:

I've just noticed that imbeded youtube videos (using the Widget Connector) are no longer working in Chrome 30 (30.0.1599.69 m). They still work in MS IE 9 once I click the 'Show all content' button on the 'Only secure content is displayed.  

I'd like to continue using Chrome; any ideas?


Answers:
author: Jeison
body: Hi Darryl,

This seems to be SSL related. What happens if you use HTTPS in the Youtube video URL?

comments: author: Darryl Lucas
body: I changed one of the seven links and the result was the same. White space was shown where the video should be.  

A 'shield' icon was diplayed n the address bar at the right end. I clicked it to run insecure content. It worked.  

So I tried your fix above, on ALL the URLs on the page and now it works.  

Thanks.

\~Darryl


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Confluence SharePoint Connector and no-index
Asked by Sune M?lgaard:

Hi all,

A customer of ours want to be able to search a Confluence instance from SharePoint, to which end we have found <https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/SPCON/Confluence+SharePoint+Connector+Home> .

So far, however, we either get very few results when attempting to crawl, or we hit an error stating that the meta-tag no-index prevented the crawl.

Now, we \*have\* specified a valid Confluence user, and we have \*not\* employed any custom robots.txt, but for the life of me, I cannot find a place to allow search engines (or SharePoint specifically) to crawl the instance.

The instance is in "private" mode, which should be a non-issue since we specify a user account.

Any and all help will be much appreciated.


Answers:
author: Sune M?lgaard
body: By way of Atlassian Support, I discovered that our client was trying to set up a connection for Fast Search, which isn't supported after v. 1.0 of the connector.

The solution is to set up the system for Federated Search as per documentation.


Tags: confluence-administration

sharepoint
Is it possible to start Confluence with a string tell to use SSO?
Asked by Gert Kuivenhoven:

Hoi, Currently we use Crowd to authenticate and have a sort of SSO. Is it possible to try to start a session with Confluence where it autmatically take the network-login-name and network-login-password from Active Directory without to specify Username / Password to logon?

Authentication against Crowd works ok; the user is authenticated using the "Delegated Authentication Directory" setup to a Microsoft Active Directory.

This will help to help users to do not again authenticate, while they are authenticated against Active Directory.


Answers:
author: Stephen Hayden
body: Click the checkbox near any appropriate answer and the question will be marked as answered. It's right below the up/down arrows to the left of each response like mine.


author: Mick Davidson
body: Hoi Gert,

To close this question you'll have to accept one of the answers.

Groetjes uit Engeland. :)

comments: author: Gert Kuivenhoven
body: Hello Mick,

Maybe a stupid question, but i don't see a button to accept an answer. Where should i find this?

options i see are:

Comment; edit; delete; convert to comment; convert to question.


author: Gert Kuivenhoven
body: The question is anwered enough for me and can be closed


author: Gert Kuivenhoven
body: Hi David,

Thanks for your response. In fact i'd like to use the supported Crowd service, but i should support SSO using the information from Active Directory to validate and use these credetials to also logon in Confluence using Crowd with an Delegated Authentication Directory to Microsoft Active Directory.

Your solution is possible and could be the only alternative. In the page

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CROWD/Configuring+Confluence+for+NTLM+SSO>

is mentioned the NTLM plugin is not officially supported by Atlassian. But i will do a request by Atlassian to check out.

On Atlassian Marketplace a (new) thirdparty addin is available:

<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/fi.polarshift.confluence.plugins.kauth.config.iwac>


author: Davin Studer
body: This is what we used to do NTLM SSO. Is this what you are looking for?

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/SPCON/Configuring+Confluence+to+use+Jespa+for+NTLM+Authentication>


Tags: confluence-administration
public access
Asked by Tim Penner:

I found a statement in a forum somewhere that a licensed user is someone with "can use" turned on. Yet, to let anonymous users in, I must turn on "can use" for them. I'd like to be really. really clear about this.

Do members of the public visiting publicly accessible spaces count in the licensed user quota for Confluence, given they do not login?

Now, suppose we have public pages that allow anonymous users to comment? Do they count as licensed users when they're in there messing around?


Answers:
author: HosseinA
body: Hi,

User count for license is for the existing user names in your Confluence with "Can Use" Permission. When they are able to login and use Confluence.

You may also refer to this link for more information.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Reducing+the+User+Count+for+your+Confluence+License>

User count does not include anonymous users, who may access your Confluence site if you have allowed anonymous access.

For public use there is no need for a login.


Tags: confluence-administration

licence
Confluence macros don't display
Asked by Valeriy Orlov:

Confluence version 5.3. When trying to Insert - Other Macros in popup window displayed only 4 macro in two tabs (All and External Content).

<http://clip2net.com/s/5WMyP7>

In all other blank page.

<http://clip2net.com/s/5WMAHU>

Also, while trying to add gliffy diagramm (Insert - Gliffy Diagram) first it shows gliffy edit page, but after exiting from it I recieve next message: "There is no metadata configured for this macro which means no configuration screen can be presented here".

Thanks in advance!


Answers:
author: hsuhailah
body: Indeed, add the JVM parameter -Datlassian.plugins.enable.wait=600 to increase the timeout value and then restart Confluence for the setting to be picked up. See [Configuring System Properties](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+System+Properties) for tips on how to set an environment variable.


author: Valeriy Orlov
body: In my case problem was in timeout, add in your setenv file: -Datlassian.plugins.enable.wait=600.

Thanks Hanis for help)


author: Alain Goy?
body: Hi,

I also have exactly the same problem following a recent upgrade to 5.3

the parameter -Datlassian.plugins.enable.wait=600 is set.

Can you please help?  

comments: author: hsuhailah
body: In this case, it was due to proxy configuration. To check on this, we've temporarily bypass proxy and access Confluence directly via IP:port or localhost:port, temporarily update this new url into Confluence Admin \> General Configuration \> Base URL and check if the issue is reproducible.


author: pan damian
body: Hi,

Have You reach any conclusions yet?

I have exactly the same problem after updating to 5.3

Thanks,


author: hsuhailah
body: I've responded to your issue raised in our support system :) Let's give out my suggestions a try and once we managed to resolve this issue, I'll post up the answer here for other's reference as well.


Tags: macro
Modify 'Dashboard' in Confluence 5
Asked by DanielG:

Hi,  

I want to modify:

![](http://s18.postimg.org/kddbek1d5/Captura_de_pantalla_2013_10_12_a_la_s_15_18_58.png)

And put a image instead (company logo) word 'Dashboard'. I see 'Global Layout' but I didnt' found where modify these...

Can anybody help me and tell me where I can modify?

Thanks in advance,

EDIT: I'm using Confluence 5.1

<br />

Daniel


Answers:
author: Mirko Skramusky
body: Hi Daniel, maybe you can replace the Logo via CSS - hide the Text and set a background image (Administration \> Stylesheet or own Confluence plugin).

Regards, Mirko

comments: author: DanielG
body: I use:

span#title-text.with-breadcrumbs {

color:transparent;

}  

And work for me :) Thanks!


author: HosseinA
body: Hi,

You may find the link below useful.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Customising+the+Confluence+Dashboard>

comments: author: DanielG
body: I read this documentation but I don't the answer of my question...


Tags: dashboard

style

template
Turn off Index Pages For Blueprints
Asked by Davin Studer:

Is there a way to turn off auto-creation of index pages for blueprints?


Answers:
author: Karen_Mustain
body: I have a similar request. Is it possible to not display the index pages for the blue prints in in the side bar under the child pages or page tree. You can access the blueprint index pages from the space short cuts.


Tags: confluence-administration
Confluence Admin cannot administer all Spaces
Asked by Nexeven Office:

While everything was working correctly, I suddently ended up with the admin user not being able to administer all spaces. I am returned with "Not Permitted - You are not permitted to perform this operation" although this is the admin user we registered the account with.

This is currently blocking us and we'd appreciate your help.


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Since it is onDemand, you will have to raise the issue with Atlassian. I am guessing the admin user is probably removed from the admin group. No one else has admin rights?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Type Description Exception Level Time cluster Non Clustered Confluence: Database is being updated by another Confluence instance.
Asked by kofi akomeah:

The psycnet wiki url <http://its-wiki.apa.org/display/PsycNET/Home> is throwing an error and not functioning.   

Error is   

You cannot access Confluence at present. Look at the table below to identify the reasons.   

Type Description Exception Level Time   
cluster Non Clustered Confluence: Database is being updated by another Confluence instance. Please see <http://confluence.atlassian.com/x/mwiyCg> for more details.   

Your server id is: B49N-T7AZ-Z2XR-AYZV   
fatal 2013-09-28 07:40:00   

This page will automatically update every 60 seconds


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: You've got two (or more) Confluence instances pointed at your database. You need to shut them both (all) down and start up only the one that should be running.


Tags: atlassian-support
Can you use onmousedown event on a Confluence page?
Asked by Jonathan Simonoff:

I'm trying to use an anmousedown event on a div on a page. It works fine in preview, but doesn't work in the regular page view -- there's no error in the JavaScript console -- it just looks like the code isn't executing.

FWIW, here's the code:

```
&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;function rsexpander() {  alert("Got the click");  var newsholediv=document.getElementById("newshole");  var expandbar=document.getElementById('rsexpandbar');  if (newsholediv.style.left=="0px"){    newsholediv.style.width="25%";    newsholediv.style.left="75%";    expandbar.style.left="75%";  }else{    newsholediv.style.width="100%";    newsholediv.style.left="0px";    expandbar.style.left="0px";  }; };&lt;/script&gt; &lt;div id="rsexpandbar" onmousedown="rsexpander()"&gt;&amp;nbsp&lt;/div&gt;
```


Answers:
author: Jonathan Simonoff
body: I discovered that if I swiched to using a button and onclick instead of a div and onmousedown it worked in both peview and regular view. I also found other things that worked differently in the view and preview, in particular setting a div to display: none, which worked fine in preview and didn't work in view.


Tags: html-macro

javascript
Powerpoint macro
Asked by Simon Lawrence:

Have Atlassian dropped the Powerpoint macro within Confluence? All of my embedded .pptx are now not rendered (message Unknown macro: 'viewppt') and the macro itself is not available under 'Other Macros'.


Answers:
author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: I'm successfully able to use it in Confluence 5.0.3. Which version are you using?

Check the macro "Office Connector" didn't get disabled: Go to [http://\[address of your server.com\]/plugins/servlet/upm#manage/com.atlassian.confluence.extra.officeconnector](http://example.com/plugins/servlet/upm#manage/com.atlassian.confluence.extra.officeconnector) . If it was disabled, check for errors in the logs.

comments: author: Simon Lawrence
body: I am using Confluence 5.1.3. The link above takes me to an ad site


author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: Did you seriously go to yourserver.com?


author: Christina Schantin [Communardo]
body: Hi Simon,  

the PowerPoint Macro is still available in Confluence 5.1.3. Are you Confluence Administrator? If yes, then go to the confluence administration: click "Manage Add Ons" and search for "Office Connector plugin" (in System). Maybe this plugin will be disabeld. In that case, enable the plugin and try again.

If you are not confluence administrator, please ask you admin, why the office connector is not working.

Cheers, Christina


Tags: confluence-administration
Wiki markups
Asked by Lars B?hnke:

Hey,

im a bit clueless. I tried to customise my documentation theme via Wiki markups.

I tried to create a link to the spaces homepage above the sidebar via the documentation theme.

The spacekey is DREH and thats what i wrote into the navigation field:

\[spacekey:\]

and thats what it looks like

\[space:key\]

Its looking exactly like the writte one... Im clueless... In the Atlassian Documentation about markups was only the command \[spacekey:\] to create a link to spaces homepage.

What am i doing wrong?

Cheers

Lars


Answers:
author: Christina Schantin [Communardo]
body: Hmmmm. Normaly it should work with space characters. Maybe your system needs the plus character instead of the space character.

If that not work, you can also use the url: \[Back to Homepage\|http://...\]


author: Christina Schantin [Communardo]
body: Hi Lars,

it seams, that this syntax is not working in the current space. try this: \[name of the page\]

Regards, Christina

comments: author: Lars B?hnke
body: Ma Space is names "Team Home", i wrote \[Team Home\], a link appears.

But by cklicking it, the creating window for pages apperas to create a page calles "Team Home"...


Tags: confluence-administration
Service Desk Knowledge Base
Asked by Lee Anne Pedersen:

Can I link a 10 user Starter License of JIRA with Service Desk to a 500 user license Confluence server for the Knowledge Base? Or do the licenses have to match?

I want to demo the Knowledge Base as a selling feature for upgrading our JIRA to more licenses and adding on Service Desk to replace our current ticketing system.


Answers:
author: Harry Chan
body: Hi, the link between JIRA and Confluence shouldn't have anythign to do with user count.

Otherwise, are you doing something specific? Please provide more detail.


Tags: jira-service-desk
Has the Dynamic Tasklist add-on been superseded by the newer Confluence Tasks?
Asked by John Alton:

Has the Dynamic Tasklist add-on been superseded by the newer in-page / in-line Confluence Tasks (i.e., the "task list" icon that displays to the far-right of the "bullet list" and "ordered list" icons in the content editor tool bar)?

We're upgrading Confluence. Trying to decide which add-ons should be brought over / installed, and which can remain behind.

thanks,  
John


Answers:
author: Adrien Ragot 2
body: No, it hasn't. However:

* As you've noticed, it duplicates the inline tasks feature. The inline tasks are superior:  
  * Inline tasks allow to create a JIRA issue (since Summit - October 2013),
  * Inline tasks allow to mention a person,
  * Inline tasks have an integration with the Inbox tasklist
* It has been released [separately from Confluence in BSD license](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/confluence.extra.dynamictasklist2),
* [The source code is available publicly](https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/confluence-tasklist-plugin/commits/all). There has been few developments on it in 2012 and 2013, and the few developments were about updating it to the latest frameworks (new Atlassian UI design, new Confluence version, etc.).

As an external observer, I would assume it's not the best deal for Atlassian to keep duplicate functionnality in Confluence. I would personnaly recommend to move away from the dynamic tasklist macro and prefer the Inline task, though you should balance your priorities according to your context and maybe ask Atlassian support or Confluence PMs.

comments: author: John Alton
body: Thanks very much, Adrien.


Tags: checklist

confluence-administration

tasklist

upgrade