Purpose

Confluence added the ability to disable all plugins at start-up using a command line argument. If you would rather have this set permanently, or launch Confluence as a service, you can instead configure this through Java CATALINA_OPTS arguments.

Solution

1. Use the appropriate method to set System Properties for your operating system from Configuring System Properties
2. Make the following changes:

   • If Confluence is running on Linux or is launched manually on Windows using start-confluence.bat

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     1. Comment out this line:

        CATALINA_OPTS="${START_CONFLUENCE_JAVA_OPTS} ${CATALINA_OPTS}"

     2. Add the following line:

        CATALINA_OPTS="-Datlassian.plugins.startup.options='--disable-all-addons' ${CATALINA_OPTS}"

     3. Save setenv.sh (or setenv.bat)

   • If Confluence is running via a Windows service:

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     1. Add the following line to the end of the Java Options field:

        -Datlassian.plugins.startup.options='--disable-all-addons'

     2. Click Ok Save
3. Stop and Start the Confluence service