Confluence administrator's guide
About the Confluence administrator's guide
This guide covers features and functions that are only available to administrators.
For information on creating and administering spaces, See Spaces.
This guide assumes that you are using the Confluence default theme. If your Confluence site has been customized the header may look different, and menu items appear in different locations to the examples given in this guide.
- Getting Started as Confluence Administrator
- Manage Users
- Managing System and Marketplace Apps
- Writing User Macros
- Customizing your Confluence Site
- Integrating Confluence with Other Applications
- Managing your Confluence License
- Managing Confluence Data
- Configuring Confluence
- Viewing System Information
- Configuring the Server Base URL
- Configuring the Confluence Search and Index
- Configuring Mail
- Configuring Character Encoding
- Other Settings
- Configuring System Properties
- Working with Confluence Logs
- Scheduled Jobs
- Configuring the Allowlist
- Configuring the Time Interval at which Drafts are Saved
- Configuring Confluence Security
- Confluence Security Overview and Advisories
- Proxy and HTTPS setup for Confluence
- Configuring Secure Administrator Sessions
- Confluence Cookies
- Using Fail2Ban to limit login attempts
- Securing Confluence with Apache
- Best Practices for Configuring Confluence Security
- Encrypting passwords in server.xml
- Hiding the People Directory
- Configuring Captcha for spam prevention
- Hiding external links from search engines
- Configuring Captcha for failed logins
- Configuring XSRF Protection
- User Email Visibility
- Anonymous Access to Remote API
- Configuring RSS Feeds
- Preventing and Cleaning Up Spam
- Configuring a Confluence Environment
- Performance Tuning
- Data Collection Policy
- Managing emojis
- Administering Collaborative Editing
- Using read-only mode for site maintenance
- Administering the Atlassian Companion App
- Notifications from Atlassian
- Administer analytics
- Monitor application performance
Downloads
Download the Confluence documentation in PDF format.
Other resources
Last modified on Dec 7, 2023
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