Start and Stop Confluence
Installing Confluence
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How you start and stop Confluence depends on whether you are running Confluence as a Service.
To check whether Confluence is already running you can go to http://<base-url>/status
.
Windows
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. The way you do this depends on how Confluence was originally installed.
If you installed Confluence manually, and have Java installed on your server:
- 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 using the installer, and don't have Java installed, use the Start and Stop Confluence options in the Start menu, or:
- To start Confluence run
<installation-directory>\startup-bundled-jre.bat
- To stop Confluence run
<installation-directory>\shutdown-bundled-jre.bat
It is possible to start Confluence Server with user installed apps temporarily disabled. This is useful if you need to troubleshoot problems with your site, particularly if an app may be preventing Confluence from starting up successfully.
To start Confluence with all user installed apps temporarily disabled:
> cd <installation-directory>/bin
> start-confluence.bat /disablealladdons
To start Confluence with a particular app temporarily disabled:
> cd <installation-directory>/bin
> start-confluence.bat /disableaddon=com.atlassian.test.plugin
where com.atlassian.test.plugin
is the app key. To disable multiple apps, use a colon separated list. Regex/wildcards are not permitted, the full key of the plugin must be provided.
These parameters are applied at startup only, they do not persist. If you want to permanently disable an app, go to
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Notes
- If the app key contains a space, disabling the app using this method will not work, you need to manually deal with that app.
- This feature does not work for Confluence Data Center.
- replace
/bin/start-confluence.bat
withstartup-bundled-jre.bat
if you installed Confluence using the installer, and are using the bundled JRE (Java Runtime Engine).
Linux
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
It is possible to start Confluence with user installed apps temporarily disabled. This is useful if you need to troubleshoot problems with your site, particularly if an app may be preventing Confluence from starting up successfully.
To start Confluence with all user installed apps temporarily disabled:
$ cd <installation-directory>/bin
$ ./start-confluence.sh --disable-all-addons
To start Confluence with a particular app temporarily disabled:
$ cd <installation-directory>/bin
$ ./start-confluence.sh --disable-addons=com.atlassian.test.plugin
where com.atlassian.test.plugin
is the app key.
To disable multiple apps, use a colon separated list, for example, com.atlassian.test.plugin:com.atlassian.another.plugin
. Regex/wildcards are not permitted, the full key of the plugin must be provided.
These parameters are applied at startup only, they do not persist. If you want to permanently disable an app, go to
Error rendering macro 'includeplus'
User 'anonymous' does not have permission to view the page with ID 956705341.
Notes
- If the app key contains a space, disabling the app using this method will not work, you need to manually deal with that app.
- This feature does not work for Confluence Data Center.
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