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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

Symptoms

During the setup wizard, in the "Enter License" step, the following error is displayed:

Possible causes

Possible cause #1

There are two lines associated with the Home directory in the <confluence-install>/confluence/WEB-INF/classes/confluence-init.properties file:

# This file allows you to set the directory for Confluence to store its configuration files.
#
###########################
# Note for Windows Users  #
###########################
#
# Each backslash in your path must be written as a forward slash.
# - For example:
# c:\confluence\data
#
# should be written as:
#
# c:/confluence/data
###########################
# Note for Unix Users     #
###########################
# - For example:
confluence.home=/var/confluence
#
# NOTE: If the path of your confluence.home directory contains symlinks,
# please set confluence.home to the absolute path, otherwise problems may occur.
# - For example:
# confluence.home=/data/confluence/ (where /data is a symlink to -> /var/data/)
# should be written as:
# confluence.home=/var/data/confluence/
###########################
# Configuration Directory #
###########################
# specify your directory below (don't forget to remove the '#' in front)
confluence.home=C:/confluence_folder/home_of_folder


If both lines are uncommented, Confluence will throw the license error.

Possible cause #2

If you have invalid permissions on your <CONFLUENCE-HOME> directory or on the <CONFLUENCE-HOME>/confluence.cfg.xml file in particular the same error may appear.

Possible cause #3

You are using a version 2 licence with a version of Confluence prior to 2.1.

Resolution

For cause #1

Your confluence-init.properties should have only one confluence.home entry, meaning that every other line should be commented (with the # character).

For cause #2

Fix the permissions on the <CONFLUENCE-HOME> directory and the confluence.cfg.xml file so that the user running Confluence will have read/write permissions.

For cause #3

Contact support to obtain a version 1 licence.

Please note that Version 1 license is meant for upgrade purposes only.
Once the upgrade process is complete, kindly log in to your My Atlassian Account to apply your existing license key.

Last modified on Feb 3, 2021

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