Product: Confluence
Environment
| Operating System | |
|---|---|
| Affect Version/s | 2.6 |
| JVM | |
| Database | Other |
| Application Server | Standalone |
Error Message
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Symptom
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Diagnostics/Test
Root Cause
Confluence's footer expose the current installed Confluence version to other users. Due to security purposes, some users prefer to hide the information shown from being shown on the footer.
Solution
There are two options that one could give a try to:
1) Disable the footer content to be displayed
Remove/comment the following line in the main.vmd file which could also be accessed via Administration > Layouts > Main Layout (if you are using the "Default theme"):
#parse ("/decorators/includes/footer.vmd")
2) Modify the message rendered in the footer
This can be done in the ConfluenceActionSupport.properties file. The following line, is a mapping key to render the footer's message:
powered.by.atlassian.confluence