How to disable attachment uploads when Confluence is read-only
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Purpose
The information on this page does not apply to sites running Confluence Data Center 6.10 or later, which provides the ability to make your site read-only. See Using read-only mode for site maintenance for more information.
If you want to disable the attachments upload feature in a Confluence instance where the read-only mode feature is not available, the workaround below may work for your site:
Workaround
Code Changes Required
This configuration requires changing the Confluence code in your installation. You will need to reapply these changes whenever you upgrade Confluence. Proceed with caution.
- Ensure that you've followed one of the methods outlined in this KB article to set your Confluence instance as Read-Only.
- Stop Confluence.
Navigate to <Confluence-Installation>/confluence/pages folder.
Modify the viewattachments.vm file by commenting the following section:
#if( $action.hasAttachFilePermissions() ) <div id="upload-div" class="attachment-section"> #parse ("/pages/uploadattachments.vm") </div> #end- Restart Confluence.