installing Confluence 5.1 on Mac OS 10.8.3
Asked by Robert Lauriston:

I installed Confluence 5.1-OD-13 on Mac OS 10.8.3 following the instructions here:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF35/Installing+Confluence+Standalone+on+Mac+OS+X+from+Zip+File>

Confluence seems to be running but <http://localhost:8080> is 404.

sudo lsof -i :8080 shows nothing, sudo lsof -i -nP \| grep "8080 (LISTEN)" shows nothing.

localhost is active, I tested that using Apache.


Answers:
author: Patrick Li
body: Sounds like Confluence did not start up successfully. Do you see any errors in Confluence logs (CONFLUENCE_HOME/logs/atlassian-confluence.log)?

comments: author: Robert Lauriston
body: ```
Jun 25, 2013 2:45:45 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.SetPropertiesRule beginWARNING: [SetPropertiesRule]{Server} Setting property 'debug' to '0' did not find a matching property.Jun 25, 2013 2:45:45 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.SetPropertiesRule beginWARNING: [SetPropertiesRule]{Server/Service/Engine} Setting property 'debug' to '0' did not find a matching property.Jun 25, 2013 2:45:45 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.SetPropertiesRule beginWARNING: [SetPropertiesRule]{Server/Service/Engine/Host} Setting property 'debug' to '0' did not find a matching property.Jun 25, 2013 2:45:45 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.SetPropertiesRule beginWARNING: [SetPropertiesRule]{Server/Service/Engine/Host/Context} Setting property 'debug' to '0' did not find a matching property.Jun 25, 2013 2:45:45 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol initINFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8090Jun 25, 2013 2:45:45 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina loadINFO: Initialization processed in 251 msJun 25, 2013 2:45:45 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService startINFO: Starting service Tomcat-StandaloneJun 25, 2013 2:45:45 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine startINFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/6.0.352013-06-25 14:45:46,255 INFO [main] [com.atlassian.confluence.lifecycle] contextInitialized Starting Confluence 5.1-OD-13 [build 4332 based on commit hash d19eb0a3bfb8be622c0ab1a0b04bdc0ee8273a95]Jun 25, 2013 2:45:51 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol startINFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8090Jun 25, 2013 2:45:51 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina startINFO: Server startup in 6529 ms
```


author: Patrick Li
body: Try localhost:8090


author: nicktruch
body: Thanks Felipe, it worked fine ! Now I'm stuck with a "The license you entered was not valid." in the Confluence setup wizard... (as described here : [https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/The+License+You+Entered+Was+Not+Valid)..](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/The+License+You+Entered+Was+Not+Valid)...).

I've tried to check the permissions but doesn't work.

Regards,

Nicolas


author: nicktruch
body: Ok I've moved the entire home in my user's hierarchy, modified /Users/myuser/confluence/confluence/WEB-INF/classes/confluence-init.properties and everything works fine now.

Thanks for your help,

Nicolas


author: FelipeA
body: Hello Nicolas,

You can override this behavior by going to (Apple icon -\> System Preferences -\> Security \& Privacy), click on Open Anyway where it says "OS X - Run Confluence In Background.command" was blocked.

Then change "Allow apps downloaded from:" to "Anywhere", and try to start confluence again, if everything goes ok, switch back this setting to it's previous value, for security reasons.

Regards


author: nicktruch
body: With Confluence 5.3.1, under MacOSX 10.9, the system doesn't want the .command file to play. It says something like : "impossible to open "OS X - Run Confluence In Background.command" because this app comes from an unidentified developper"... :'(


author: Robert Lauriston
body: That's on purpose, I plan to export from an OnDemand instance, import into the installed version, do some tasks that require add-ons, export, and import back into OnDemand.


author: David at David Simpson Apps
body: Using Confluence 5.1-OD-13 suggests that you're running the OnDemand version for Confluence rather than the normal version. Is this on purpose or by pure chance that you've installed the wrong version?

OD == OnDemand -- cryptic, right?


author: Robert Lauriston
body: Aack, dyslexia strikes again. Thanks.


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