Confluence

Installation

Download and unpack Confluence into temporary directory:

# wget -nv http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/downloads/binary/confluence-3.2.1_01.tar.gz
# tar -xzf confluence-3.2.1_01.tar.gz

Setup the local storage:

confluence-init.properties

--- confluence-3.0.0_01/confluence/WEB-INF/classes/confluence-init.properties.orig    2009-06-01 16:10:19.000000000 +0200
+++ confluence-3.0.0_01/confluence/WEB-INF/classes/confluence-init.properties    2009-06-05 11:44:22.997782473 +0200
@@ -31,4 +31,4 @@

 # specify your directory below (don't forget to remove the '#' in front)

-# confluence.home=c:/confluence/data
\ No newline at end of file
+confluence.home=/usr/local/confluence

Build a package: cd confluence-3.2.1_01 && ./build.sh && mkdir -p /usr/local/confluence && mv dist/confluence-3.2.1_01.war /usr/local/confluence && cd /usr/local/confluence

Create context descriptor /usr/local/confluence/confluence.xml:

confluence.xml

<Context path="/confluence" docBase="/usr/local/confluence/confluence-3.2.1_01.war" debug="0" reloadable="true">
    <Resource name="jdbc/ConfluenceDS" auth="Container"
        type="javax.sql.DataSource"
        username="confluence"
        password="***"
        driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
        url="jdbc:mysql://localhost/confluence_db?useUnicode=true&amp;characterEncoding=UTF8"
        maxActive="20"
        validationQuery="select 1" />
 
    <Resource name="UserTransaction" auth="Container"
        type="javax.transaction.UserTransaction"
        factory="org.objectweb.jotm.UserTransactionFactory"
        jotm.timeout="60" />
 
    <Manager className="org.apache.catalina.session.PersistentManager" saveOnRestart="false" />
</Context>

Tune file permissions:

# cd /usr/local/confluence
# chown tomcat6.www -R .
# chmod a-w,o-rwx -R .
# chmod 750 .

Configure tomcat to start Confluence application:

# cd /usr/share/tomcat6/conf/Catalina/localhost
# ln -s /usr/local/confluence/confluence.xml

Problems

Cannot setup Confluence connection via DS due to UnsupportedOperationException

Fix confluence.cfg.xml in Confluence root directory as mentioned in FAQ and restart Tomcat.