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Plugin Development
RSS Feeds
Site Backup & Restore
JIRA Issues Macro
Mail Archiving

Installation Troubleshooting

Solutions to common issues with installing Confluence. Review your logs by opening the Confluence install directory and checking the /logs/catalina.out and /logs/catalina.out files for errors described below. Click on a problem to show the solution.

Confluence window closes immediately when started
Confluence won't start - java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError IntraHibernateAttachmentCopier
Confluence won't start - Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: ...
Confluence won't start - Error creating Confluence Home directory
Confluence won't start - JAVA_HOME environment variable is not defined correctly
Confluence won't start - Port 8080 is in use
Confluence won't start - Error creating bean with name 'scheduler'
Confluence won't start - Error registering bean with name 'fileSystemAttachmentDataDao'
Confluence starts but localhost:8080 times out
Confluence starts but localhost:8080 goes to Tomcat start homepage
Confluence starts but logins fail at login screen
BUILD FAILED message when trying to create an EAR file in Confluence 2.6 or 2.7

Post-Install Troubleshooting

Cannot install Confluence due to 'NullPointerException in DefaultPluginManager' error
Cannot register Confluence due to 'License you entered was not valid' error
Cannot send email due to 'javax.mail.NoSuchProviderException' SMTP error
Confluence content or attachments are randomly lost
Confluence stops responding after some time
Confluence Unix and X11 Dependencies
Confluence will not start - CommandBridge ClassNotFoundException
Confluence won't start with "Error creating Home directory"
Custom HTML broken in Look and Feel after saving invalid HTML
Dynamic tasklist macro edits fail with ConversionException after JDK upgrade
Edit page fails with 'DataIntegrityViolationException... Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint'
Fix '404' errors in Space tree view
Fix 'Error using thumbnails - No image support in Java runtime'
Fix 'java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError... Unsupported major.minor version 49.0'
Fix 'Out of Memory' errors by increasing available memory
Fix 'Page Not Found' errors for pages with spaces in the title
Fix 'Too many open files' error on Linux by increasing filehandles
Fix Case Mismatches in Permissions
Fix JavaScript browser errors
PDF export fails on Linux with UnsatisfiedLinkError
Search is not finding my data AND the indexing process does not appear to be completing
Troubleshooting Character Encodings
Troubleshooting HTTPS or SSL-related problems
View page containing Chart macro throws 'NoClassDefFoundError'
What browsers are supported? I cannot see the Rich Text Editor in my browser

General Questions

Add Spell Checking To Confluence
Can I use CamelCaseLinks like they do on WardsWiki?
Can Users Edit Individual Sections Within a Page?
Change default font in Confluence
Change listen port for Confluence Standalone
Copy Or Rename A Space
Create a page by passing parameters to a template
Disable Profile Pictures showing up in Recently-Updated Macro?
Disable public account signups
Enable public anonymous access
Enable user access logging
Getting a License for a Staging Environment
How do I change the space key?
How do I disable indexing of attachments
How does Confluence differ from a wiki?
How much disk space does Confluence need?
Installing Confluence Standalone
Rebuild index from scratch
Redirect users to a page on login
Retrieve file attachments from a backup
Setup email notifications of page updates
Share users and groups between Confluence and JIRA
Start Confluence automatically on system startup
Upgrade My Trial To A Commercial Version
Where does Confluence store all its data?

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  1. Apr 09

    Anonymous says:

    Hello. Through research I know confluence has not been tested for  508 comp...

    Hello.

    Through research I know confluence has not been tested for  508 compliance however is s there documentation on what features of confluence are 508 or accessibility complaint? If so where can I obtain this?

    Nana

    1. Apr 10

      Mei Yan Chan says:

      Hi Nana, Hope the following link will be helpful to you:

      Hi Nana,

      Hope the following link will be helpful to you:

      Regards,
      Mei

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