Confluence Installation and Operation

Install Confluence 6.5.19

environment

The only supported OpenJDK vendor is AdoptOpenJDK
Need to install fontconfig

JVM parameter tweaks

Update /data/atlassian-confluence-6.15.9/bin/setenv.sh

CATALINA_OPTS="-Xms4096m -Xmx16384m -XX:+UseG1GC ${CATALINA_OPTS}"
CATALINA_OPTS="-Dsynchrony.enable.xhr.fallback=true -Dsynchrony.memory.max=4g ${CATALINA_OPTS}"

Flow

graph TB; A[Install AdoptOpenJDK] --> B[Install fontconfig] B --> C[Start Tomcat] C --> D[Stop Tomcat] D --> E[Write down server id] E --> F[Replace Jar] F --> G[Get license] G --> C

Steps

Download confluence from Atlassian official site
Open web browser at http://10.5.1.5:8090
Follow the installation guide and write down server id.
Stop confluence
Replace atlassian-extras-decoder-v2-3.4.1.jar under /data/atlassian-confluence-6.15.9/confluence/WEB-INF/lib
Replace atlassian-universal-plugin-manager-plugin-3.0.jar under /data/atlassian-confluence-6.15.9/confluence/WEB-INF/atlassian-bundled-plugins

Generate license in base64 format

SEN-LXXXXXXXX should be picked up using randomized digits
Here’s an example

Description=Confluence
NumberOfUsers=-1
CreationDate=2019-04-05
ContactName=confluence
conf.active=true
[email protected]
Evaluation=false
conf.LicenseTypeName=COMMERCIAL
MaintenanceExpiryDate=2337-12-25
conf.NumberOfClusterNodes=0
SEN=SEN-L14792638
Organisation=Some TEAM
ServerID=BZXH-50E1-CFZK-9ABN
LicenseID=LIDSEN-L14232670
LicenseExpiryDate=2337-12-25
PurchaseDate=2019-03-05

Start confluence and paste the license in base64

If confluence is behind a proxy, need to update conf/server.xml

<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" address="10.5.1.6"
               scheme="https" secure="true" proxyName="wiki.henryzhou.com" proxyPort="443"/>

FAQ

Decode failure

Remove character X02f3 at the end