Configuring a Confluence Environment
This section describes the external setup of your Confluence installation. It includes information on configuring the web server, application server, directories and files – everything to do with the environment that Confluence runs in. For guidelines on modifying settings inside the application, see Configuring Confluence instead.
Confluence is a J2EE web application. On the client side, users access Confluence primarily via a web browser.
This section contains the following guidelines:
- Confluence Home and other important directories
- Application Server Configuration
- Starting Confluence Automatically on System Startup
Diagram: A Confluence installation