Building an efficient Team collaboration tool (iii) Confluence installation configuration

Confluence is a professional enterprise knowledge management and collaboration software, an enterprise-level wiki. It enables collaboration and information sharing among team members. Confluence is simple to use, but its powerful editing and site management features help team members share information, document collaboration, and Brainstorm. At present, confluence is widely used in project team, development team, marketing team.

1. System environment

OS:	CentOS Release 5.6
Jdk:	1.6.0_26
Web Server:	tomcat-6.0.32
Db:	MySQL Community Server 5.5.15
Jdbc	mysql-connector-java-5.1.17
Confluence:	Confluence 3.4.5-ear/war (WAR)

The system environment configuration is not described here, assuming Tomcat, MySQL and other environmental configuration completed.

2. Directory Planning

/usr/local/jdk1.6	JDK installation directory, Java_home and classpath set to global environment variables
	MySQL uses the RPM default installation path
/opt/tomcat6	Tomcat installation directory
/opt/atlassian	Atlassian the parent directory of the product installation
/opt/atlassian/home	Atlassian Product Home directory, Confluence_home is in/opt/atlassian/home/confluence
/opt/atlassian/confluence	Jira installation directory

3. Establishment of the Confluence database

Log in to MySQL with root user to create schema required for Jira

Mysql> CREATE database confluence character set UTF8;

Mysql> Grant all on confluence.* to confluence@ ' localhost ' identified by ' confluence ';

4. Generate Confluence Project

Download Confluence3.4.5-ear/war (War) (choose War version is mainly to feel flexible configuration), extract to a temporary directory (for example:/opt/resource).

Switch to the unpacked directory and run build.sh:

$ sh build.sh

After the operation to generate the corresponding directories and files, into the dist/directory, the Confluence-3.4.5.war files extracted into the/opt/atlassian/confluence directory.

Create confluence.xml under Tomcat ' s conf/catalina/localhost/, as follows:

<contextpath= "/confluence" docbase= "/opt/atlassian/confluence" reloadable= "true" crosscontext= "true"/>

5. Update Tomcat class Pack

Jira-jars-tomcat6.zip Download Address:

http://confluence.atlassian.com/download/attachments/231932640/jira-jars-tomcat6.zip?version=1& modificationdate=1252474277487

Mail.jar Download Address

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/index-138643.html

Activation.jar (ie jaf) Download address

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/index-135046.html

and MySQL JDBC driver:

http://www.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/

See "Building an efficient team collaboration tool (i) Jira installation Configuration".

6. Crowd related configuration

Modify/opt/atlassian/confluence/web-inf/classes/confluence-init.properties:

Confluence.home=/opt/atlassian/home/confluence

7. Run Tomcat and follow the wizard to initialize confluence

Restart Tomcat, enter http://<ip>:8080/confluence in the browser, and go to the Setup Wizard to install and initialize confluence through the wizard.