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installation confluence on server
Asked by Pieter-Jan Vanhoutte:

Hello,

I installed a trial version of Confluence on my PC, but my computer started working really slow. I want now a server version because then I can use more apps from marketplace. But I have no experience with installing on servers. So I'm from Belgium, can someone recommend a hosting-company where I can try or hire some space to put on confluence? What kind of server (Linux?)? Is it difficult if you have no experience with servers?

Second question: installed on server, does confluence work then also on every smartphone?

thank you!

Pieter-Jan


Answers:
author: Vickey Palzor Lepcha
body: Also , try using those free Linux servers that you get from AWS - not sure how much resources they could allocate under free category.


author: Vickey Palzor Lepcha
body: I run on 8GB - both JIRA and Confluence, well it's Windows 10 and for my personal use. But if it just for testing you can start from your machine.

For a fullfledged Production Env I am sure you will provision new servers.

Confluence and Syncrony processes consume different memory allocations so I'd suggest a minimum of 4GB.

For now, you can turn off Collaborative Editing ( Syncrony) in your current machine and see if it improves performance.


author: Alessandro
body: I have a core i5 4400 (quite old), with 12 GB ram.

Installed confluence here on my PC, doesn't slow.

It takes you 1GB RAM when it runs.

I think that with 16GB RAM you can do your tests, before migrate to a windows server edition or on the cloud

comments: author: Pieter-Jan Vanhoutte
body: thank you for your answer. i have 4 GB ram on my pc, so probably not fast enough?? Can you advise somewhere a server where I pay little amount to try?


author: Test Piet
body: thankx, is this f.ex. an option?

<https://www.strato.nl/server/vps-linux/#voordelen>

Am I on the good track?

![linux2.JPG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/28277iDB9F31F231B4F1F7/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "linux2.JPG")![linux1.JPG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/28276i34268068B886BBB9/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "linux1.JPG")


author: Alexis Robert
body: Hello [@Pieter-Jan Vanhoutte](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1676735),

if you're not familiair with server administration you should look into Atlassian Cloud: <https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/pricing>

You won't need to handle any of the installation or configuration of the server as they provide an instance that's ready to use.

Have a look at the documentation, I think it should suits you well: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloud/atlassian-cloud-documentation-744721592.html>

Let me know if it helps,

--Alexis


Tags: confluence-server

server
MySQL isolation level could not be read
Asked by brandaid:

I installed the latest Confluence and restarted it and am now getting this error:

MySQL isolation level could not be read. Isolation level must be 'READ-COMMITTED'.

I followed the article at <http://confluence.atlassian.com/x/GAtmDg> and restarted Confluence and still no solution


Answers:
author: brandaid
body: I believe so. How do I verify?

comments: author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Shut down Jira, restart the database server, and then run the check SQL mentioned in the doc (the database restart should not really be needed, but I've seen it be necessary once, so I wanted to mention it)


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: Are you sure the flag was applied to the database and has persisted?


Tags: confluence-server

server
Tomcat config is incorrect behind Apache
Asked by Marie Endres:

Hi,

I configured Confluence to run behind Apache 2.4 SSL, following the corresponding guides I found in the Atlassian documentation, everything seems to work fine, except I find this error anytime I log in to the interface:

**Tomcat config is incorrect**

The Tomcat server.xml has an incorrect configuration:

**scheme** should be 'https'  
**proxyName** should be 'subdomain.domain.corp'  
**proxyPort** should be '443'

Also, my server still responds on port 8090.

This is the relevant config in server.xml, other connector sections are commented as recommended in the very same file. As you can see, the fields values displayed

\<Connector port="8090" connectionTimeout="20000" redirectPort="8443"  
maxThreads="48" minSpareThreads="10"  
enableLookups="false" acceptCount="10" debug="0" URIEncoding="UTF-8"  
protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol"  
scheme="https" secure="true" proxyName="subdomain.domain.corp=" proxyPort="443"/\>

and this is my config in httpd.conf

\<VirtualHost \*:443\>  
ServerName subdomain.domain.corp  
ProxyRequests Off

\<Proxy \*\>  
Require all granted  
\</Proxy\>

ProxyVia Off  
SSLProxyEngine On  
ProxyRequests Off  
ProxyPreserveHost On  
RemoteIPHeader X-Forwarded-For

ProxyPass / http://domain.corp:8090/  
ProxyPassReverse / http://domain.corp:8090/

SSLEngine On  
SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/certs/hostname.pem  
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/certs/private.key  
\</VirtualHost\>

Any help is really appreciated, i wouldn't like to disable the Base URL plugin as suggested here, before making sure nothing is badly configured.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/can-t-check-base-url-warning-in-confluence-6-6-or-later-939718433.html>

Also, why the server is still answering in port 8090? shall I block this port in Iptables?

Thanks


Answers:
author: seffparker
body: Managed to fix after using a different service port for JAVA in server.xml.

1. Modify port="8090" to port="8092" in server.xml
2. Modify the port to 8092 in Apache conf for both ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse
3. Restart Confluence
4. Restart Aapche


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: My usual mistake is doing all the right things in the server.xml, but forgetting to uncomment the connector I have modified, so it carries on using the old one.

Your connector looks right to me, so I'm guessing it's not being read by Tomcat, rather than it being wrong!

comments: author: Marie Endres
body: Thanks! Actually I don't think it doesn't read it, I reverted all changes and stopped Apache and now it is working OK again ... seems a configuration issue but I ignore what can be wrong.


author: Cloud Architect
body: oops! I still suffer from the same error:

**Tomcat config is incorrect**

The Tomcat server.xml has an incorrect configuration:

**scheme** should be 'https'  
**proxyName** should be 'subdomain.domain.com'  
**proxyPort** should be '443'


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: As before, you'll need to correct the settings in the server.xml file.


Tags: apache

ssl
User macro to display single Jira issue not working as expected
Asked by Maree Milne:

Hi,

I have a user macro which works as a wrapper for the JIM macro, allowing us to inject variables when creating pages.

It works brilliantly except that it does not create a reciprocal link from the Jira issue to the Confluence page and I'm not sure why not. This is the relevant part of the macro:

\<ac:structured-macro ac:name="jira" ac:schema-version="1" \>  
\<ac:parameter ac:name="server"\>Jira\</ac:parameter\>  
\<ac:parameter ac:name="cache"\>false\</ac:parameter\>  
\<ac:parameter ac:name="key"\>$body\</ac:parameter\>  
\</ac:structured-macro\>

Does anyone have any ideas? I think it was actually working before we upgraded to Confluence 6.8.2 and Jira 7.9.2 as no one had raised an issue before, but not sure.

Thanks

Maree


Answers:
author: Zak Laughton
body: Hi Maree!

Unfortunately, I was unable to get this to work either. It doesn't work in Confluence 6.9.1 with Jira 7.9, but it also didn't work when I tested as early as Confluence 5.10.8 with Jira 7.2.0. I'm not sure this was ever possible with a user macro. My guess is there's some code in the Jira plugin in Confluences that works behind-the-scenes with the macro to create that reciprocal link.

comments: author: Maree Milne
body: Thanks Zak, that's what I figured, but as the user macro is really acting as a wrapper around the existing Jira macro I was hoping to find some way to trigger it...


author: Alex van Vucht (GLiNTECH)
body: Yes, Jira links aren't generating either when using wiki markup in a $action.getHelper().renderConfluenceMacro() call.


Tags: atl-adm

confluence-server

server

user-macro
Export Based on Date/Time
Asked by Davin Studer:

Does anyone know of any add-ons that will allow you to export Confluence content based on a given date/time. So, the PDF would not be generated based on how the content looks today, but based on how it looked at the date/time specified.

We keep our policies and procedures in Confluence and from time to time questions arise about how our policies or procedures looked at a certain point in history for legal purposes. The current export features do not let your do this , but it should all be doable as Confluence keeps the history, but I've yet to find anything that can do this.


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi Davin,

Unfortunately this is not possible in Confluence without restoring the historical version.

We had a feature request for it at [CONFSERVER-6062](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-6062) but we have determined that we will not be implementing it in the near future.

Perhaps you could try using an add-on for this?

I'm not too familiar but I think maybe you could get something to work with [Scroll Versions](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1210818/scroll-versions-for-confluence?hosting=server&tab=overview) and [Scroll PDF Exporter](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/7019/scroll-pdf-exporter-for-confluence)?

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: atlassian-marketplace

confluence-server
What is the Labels Management tab used for?
Asked by Carrie Nowocin:

I'm trying to figure out what each parameter on the Space Tools \> Content Tools \> Labels Management tab represent?


Answers:
author: Igor M.
body: Hello,

That menu is part of [Labels Cage](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1211162/labels-cage?hosting=server&tab=overview) plug-in.

I believe it is designed to restrict a list of labels and allows you to rename similar labels across the site. You can visit [Developer Page](https://intenso.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/LC/overview) for full list of features and how these are used.

Regards,

Igor


Tags: confluence-server

server
Import a word doc
Asked by Felipe Maurer:

I want to import from a Word doc, but when I go to Create... there is no Import option. Any ideas?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Emily Errico
body: Create a blank page, publish it, then select "Import Word Document" from the "..." menu on the top right.

comments: author: Felipe Maurer
body: But I don't see that option on the menu...


author: Emily Errico
body: On the published page, clicking on the "..." menu doesn't show you this?

![menu.PNG](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/28235i8472701B139723DD/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "menu.PNG")


author: Felipe Maurer
body: No... This is a corporate deployment, maybe it is not complete?


author: Emily Errico
body: Can you explain what you mean by corporate deployment? Could you include a screenshot of what options you do have?

It may be a permissions issue, have you tested in your own space?


author: Felipe Maurer
body: IIl try it. Can I get back to you tomorrow? I don't have acc?s right now.

Thanks very much.


author: Emily Errico
body: Absolutely. If you end up figuring it out, please post your solution!


author: Igor M.
body: Hello,

Could you also check if Office Connector plug-in is not disabled.

Regards,

Igor

comments: author: Felipe Maurer
body: How can I check?


author: Felipe Maurer
body: I was just able to do it, just as you said. My mistake is that the ... menu I was using was the one next to the Create button on the top menu. Once I found the correct one, it all worked great.

Thanks
Is Confluence right for my team
Asked by kevin lindsay:

hello

Some teams within the company I work for have recently started using Confluence as a way to share and store knowledge. These are hardware (IC) design engineers. I am considering expanding on this idea and use Confluence as a home page for a fairly large applications engineering team. Would this be a good tool to use?

Currently, our team is extensively using JIRA for bug tracking and Slack for team communication. We also use Smartsheet for product development progress, although I don't personally use it.

What I would like is to develop a homepage that my team uses as a daily starting off point. To motivate the team to do this, the Confluence team page would need to pull information directly from the above mentioned tools and display relevant information.

Given that I am not (yet) savvy with Confluence, and am not a software engineer, does this sound do-able? If so, what's the best way to get started? I have already created a basic personnal space with links to other spaces and how-to-articles, but have not been able to progress beyond that. I could pay for some InLearning or Atlassian classes to speed up, but, am wondering if there is a better way?


Answers:
author: Meg Holbrook
body: Hey Kevin,

Since you're familiar with Atlassian products, then you know the lengths to which Atlassians go to create a cohesive and integrated platform across their products. There are definitely ways to show JIRA project and issue links on confluence pages dashboard-style, and plenty of other third-party apps that have near-limitless functionality across loads of business tools.

I think the better question is not whether or not Confluence *can* do it, but rather what the level of technical skill is available in your organization to make it *do what you want*.

The best thing to do, in my opinion, would be to take some Confluence training or poke around in the documentation. If you have more specific questions, the community is a great source of information once you've established a direction/mock up.

Let me know if you have any questions and best of luck!


Tags: confluence-server

jira

jira-server

server
Confluence Cloud Theme Route Override
Asked by Daniel Van Pham:

Following the guide here: <https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/create-a-confluence-theme/>  

Even with routeOverride: false, selecting the theme attempts to override the route. Is this a bug?


Answers:
author: Daniel Van Pham
body: Removing routeOverride entirely seems to resolve this issue.  

edit: I lied, it does not.


Tags: app

atl-dev

cloud

confluence-cloud

jira-development
What add-ons to get?
Asked by John Ricks:

We are moving from cloud to server with Confluence. As a startup we need to do three special things with Confluence that it does not seem to do at this time.

1. We need to have check-in and **check -out for editing**.
2. We need **signature approval** and final release where people looking for the page gets only the newest released revision.
3. We need a better **Confluence editor** so we can do simple things like indent bullets, change the bullets, change the numbering to alpha, change fonts and size, etc.

Need to know what works and what to stay away from.

Please advise.

Thanks,

John


Answers:
author: Jonathan Smith
body: Coming from a non-vendor:

* For approvals / publishing, I hear [Comala Workflows](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/142/comala-workflows?hosting=server&tab=overview) is nice.
* For check-out feature, [Arsenale Lockpoint](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/36199/arsenale-lockpoint-attachment-checkout?hosting=server&tab=overview) might work for you.

Good luck!


Tags: confluence-server

server
"Visible only to me" set as a default option
Asked by Site Admin:

Hi,

We want to change the default security model for creating a space to "Visible only to me" i.e. the tick box selected. Has anyone figured out how to do this?

We user the on-prem version of Confluence, v6.9

Thanks in advance for any assistance.


Answers:
author: Shannon S
body: Hi there,

My recommendation here would be to go to **Settings \> General Configuration \> Space Permissions (under Users \& Security)** and remove the default group there, like this:

![Screen Shot 2018-08-01 at 3.48.17 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/28403iD69EBEAC3BE5E512/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2018-08-01 at 3.48.17 PM.png")

Then, when you create new spaces, the permissions will look like this:

![Screen Shot 2018-08-01 at 3.49.12 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/28404iF03B5160F75298CD/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2018-08-01 at 3.49.12 PM.png")

You can see here that I am the only user who has access to the space.

The checkbox won't automatically be selected, but this workaround does essentially what you are requiring.

Let me know if you have any questions!

Regards,

Shannon

comments: author: Site Admin
body: Thanks Shannon, this was helpful


author: Shannon S
body: You're welcome!

Happy to help.

Regards,

Shannon


Tags: confluence-server

server
Export page info macro table to .csv?
Asked by MSU TechServices:

We use Confluence Cloud and we've set up the page info macro on each of our pages to reflect a content owner and the owner's team, a date created, and a date last updated. We'd love to export this info and create a spreadsheet. Searched around and didn't find anything relevant in Atlassian documentation or community posts. Would love to know if this is possible!


Answers:
author: Andrey Khaneev _StiltSoft_
body: [Table Filter](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/27447/table-filter-and-charts-for-confluence?hosting=cloud&tab=overview) macro can export tables to CSV, you can try it.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Where did 'Watching' go in the User Profile in Confluence
Asked by Angela Boston:

The old UI had a link to see pages and spaces the logged in user was watching. Where did this functionality go in the new UI?


Answers:
author: Mikael Sandberg
body: If you click on your user avatar \> Settings you can get to the Watches.

![settings.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/28216i95757DDCC58EBE9E/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "settings.png")![watches.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/28217i325E0464473AABA8/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "watches.png")


author: Angela Boston
body: Ah, yes. Thank you.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
REST API: HTML links not intact when bringing back HTML
Asked by Blake Pitts:

Here is my request to get back the HTML:

<https://mysite.atlassian.net/wiki/rest/api/content/60489767?expand=body.styled_view>

I am getting all the content back that I would like but the links do not have their URLs attached with them. Is it possible to get the links intact as well?

Thanks,

Blake


Answers:
author: Zak Laughton
body: Hi Blake,

For the Confluence links in the styled_view object, I don't believe there's a way to add the full URL to the a tag, since this is how the code is written on the actual page itself. In order to add the full URL, the best workaround would probably be to find/replace any partial links with the full link after retrieving the data.

-Zak


author: Zak Laughton
body: Hi Blake,

I tested on a page I had, but I was able to get links in the body.styled_view objects with their associated URL.

A couple questions to try to understand better:

* Are these links to external webpages, or links to internal Confluence content (such as another Confluence page)?
* Can you provide example HTML of a link where the URL is missing?

Thanks!  
-Zak

comments: author: Blake Pitts
body: Hey Zach,

Thanks for your response. These links are to another internal Confluence page.

Here is the \<a\> I get back:

\<a href=\\ "/wiki/spaces/CCSD/pages/73334785/Diagnosing+Customer+Merge+Errors\\"\>Diagnosing Customer Merge Errors\</a\>

It leaves off the '<https://mysite.atlassian.net/>' in the beginning of the href. Is it possible to get this included with the response?


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

html

link

rest-api
REST API: Get all labels within a space
Asked by Blake Pitts:

I'm trying to return all the labels within a space. Is there a way to do this?

Thank you,

Blake


Answers:
author: Zak Laughton
body: Hi Blake,

There's not a way to directly search for all labels within a space using the REST API, but as an alternative you can return all pages with their labels.

You can use this URL to return all pages with their labels (replacing with your site and spacekey):

```
https://<sitename>.atlassian.net/wiki/rest/api/content?spacekey=<spacekey>&expand=metadata.labels
```

Then, you can use a script to parse through the results to find the unique labels in the metadata.labels object for each page.

-Zak

comments: author: Vakalos Mixalis
body: [@Zak Laughton](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/311502)   
Hello Zak,  

We are using the URL you have posted to load and search labels through a drop-down field but I think there is a small problem.  

On a big scale with hundreds of pages and labels, the page takes too long to load  
all the labels and it's a bit annoying.  

Is there any alternative way to do this?  
Like when we adding labels in a page and there are some suggestions like the photo.  

Thank you,  
Mixalis  

![image (2).png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/127381i8D20A4B48FC52981/image-dimensions/219x105?v=v2 "image (2).png")  


author: Alois Igelspacher
body: Would be indeed very nice to have an endpoint, that returns all labels used in a specific space.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Timeline Gadget : "Client must be authenticated to access this resource.","status-code":401
Asked by Olivier Studer:

Hi,

When I try to use the Timeline Gadget in Confluence, I have the following message.

![image.png](/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/28200i5E6AE7ADAB1A7BEB/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "image.png")

Why ?

Because on Jira, the Timeline Gadget works good.

Any body can help me ?

Regards

/Olivier


Answers:
author: Olivier Studer
body: Hi Oliver,

A 401 error is an HTTP Authorization error, meaning that the requester is not authorized to access the requested resource. Are you using SSO between Jira and Confluence? And are the two set up as linked applications?

All the best,  
Cameron

comments: author: Olivier Studer
body: Hi Cameron,

Are you using SSO between Jira and Confluence? NO

And are the two set up as linked applications? YES

So, it is possible to work like this ?

Regards

/Olivier


author: Olivier Studer
body: Hi Cameron,

Do you have a solution to help me with my configuration ?

Regards

/Olivier


Tags: gadget

macro

questions-for-confluence
How to verify the jenkins plugin .hpi files
Asked by Munish Gairola:

Hi, anyone help me as how to verify a Jenkins Plugins i.e. .hpi file(s) like we can verify .rpm files. for the sanity check!!

I want to be sure that the plugin i am downloading is not corroupted or infected.

Is there any way out doing it offline??


Answers:
author: AnnWorley
body: Hi Munish,

It sounds like you are downloading plugins to install on your Jenkins instance and would like to do an MD5 checksum or similar to verify the files are intact.

This forum is for questions about Atlassian products, so I would like to refer you to [The Jenkins community](https://jenkins.io/chat/).

Thanks,

Ann


Tags: jenkins
Macro for world clock
Asked by jjensencz:

Hi Guys,

We were using a macro (iframe) for showing different times on different pages, but it no longer works. I have enabled (html-xhtml) under HTML Macros.

I was wondering if anybody here have had similar issues, and have a solution.

Thanks

J.Jensen


Answers:
author: Jonathan Smith
body: [@jjensencz](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1718549),

Some websites won't allow you to utilize their content in an iframe. Try a news site to make sure your iframe code still works. If the other URL works, and your world clock URL still doesn't work, try whitelisting the URL in confluence settings:

* https://*confluenceserver*/plugins/servlet/whitelist

comments: author: jjensencz
body: Thanks for reply, I will give it a try.

Best regards

JJensen


Tags: confluence-server

server