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The 'Confluence Installation directory' is the directory into which the Confluence application files and libraries have been unpacked (unzipped) when Confluence was installed. Confluence does not modify or store any data in this directory. This directory is also sometimes called the 'Confluence Install directory'.

(warning) The information on this page does not apply to Confluence OnDemand.

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  1. Sep 14, 2011

    Michael Harris

    Page should be expanded to outline exactly how the user would locate their installation directory post-configuration and install.

    This would be specially handy if the party does not know/cannot locate it and might be preparing for an upgrade, backup, etc.

    1. Sep 28, 2011

      Anonymous

      I am exactly in this situation.  Came to this page to find, at the very least, the defaults  :-\

  2. Oct 02, 2011

    Craig Bonsignore

    after some hunting, I found these defaults:

    /opt/atlassian/confluence/

    /var/atlassian/application-data/confluence

  3. Oct 30, 2011

    Minh Lee

    So where is Confluence 4 installed post upgrade? I have Confluence installed in a path that includes the version number i.e. confluence-3.5-std. After upgrading I can't find a new folder so can you confirm that files have been over written or is it tucked away in a different location altogether? 

  4. Dec 01, 2011

    Michael Brinson

    This may be helpful:

    The "Confluence Installation Directory" has a folder structure that will be similar to this:

    • bin
    • conf
    • confluence
    • lib
    • LICENSE
    • licenses
    • logs
    • NOTICE
    • README.html
    • README.txt
    • RELEASE-NOTES
    • RUNNING.txt
    • temp
    • webapps
    • work

    The "Confluence Home Directory" on the other hand will look something like this:

    • attachments
    • backups
    • bundled-plugins
    • bundled-plugins_language
    • config
    • confluence.cfg.xml
    • index
    • logs
    • plugin-cache
    • plugins-osgi-cache
    • plugins-temp
    • restore
    • temp
    • thumbnails
    • viewfile

    That should be helpful in identifying the right one.  I think they should just name the confluence home directory "confluence-home" so it is unambiguous, but what do I know?