Start and Stop Confluence

If you installed Confluence as a service, you can Start Confluence Server and Stop Confluence Server from the Windows Start menu. 

You can't start or stop Confluence manually using the start-confluence.bat and stop-confluence.bat file.

If you didn't install Confluence as a service you'll need to start and stop Confluence manually.

• To start Confluence run <installation-directory>\bin\start-confluence.bat
• To stop Confluence run <installation-directory>\bin\stop-confluence.bat

We recommend running Confluence with a dedicated user account. To do this, use use the runas command to execute start-confluence.bat.

> runas /env /user:<DOMAIN>\<confluence> start-confluence.bat

Where <DOMAIN> is your Windows domain or computer name and <confluence> is the name of your dedicated user.

If you installed Confluence as a service, use one of the following commands to start, stop or restart Confluence.

$ sudo /etc/init.d/confluence start
$ sudo /etc/init.d/confluence stop
$ sudo /etc/init.d/confluence restart

You can't start or stop Confluence manually using the start-confluence.sh and stop-confluence.sh files.

If you didn't install Confluence as a service you'll need to start and stop Confluence manually.

• To start Confluence run <installation-directory>\bin\start-confluence.sh
• To stop Confluence run <installation-directory>\bin\stop-confluence.sh

We recommend running Confluence with a dedicated user account:

$ su -u <user>
$ ./start-confluence.sh

Where <user> is the name of your dedicated user.

If you're using Ubuntu the command is a little different:

$ sudo su <user>
$ ./start-confluence.sh