Startup check: Confluence database driver missing
Platform notice: Server and Data Center only. This article only applies to Atlassian products on the Server and Data Center platforms.
Support for Server* products ended on February 15th 2024. If you are running a Server product, you can visit the Atlassian Server end of support announcement to review your migration options.
*Except Fisheye and Crucible
Confluence needs a database driver to connect to your database. To make the driver for your database available to Confluence:
- Download and extract the appropriate driver .jar file - see Database JDBC Drivers for a list of supported drivers.
- Drop the .jar file in your
<installation-directory>/confluence/WEB-INF/lib
directory. - Restart Confluence.