Welcome to the Confluence Installation Guide!

What is Confluence?

Confluence is an enterprise wiki that makes it easy for your team to collaborate and share knowledge. A wiki is a web application that lets you edit web pages easily and immediately. No waiting, just click, type, and click again.

Want one? Let's go!

Before you Start

Please check the following points:

  1. Make sure that your system meets the minimum requirements to run Confluence:
    • If you are installing Confluence for evaluation purposes, it should be pretty easy. You can use the Confluence Installer for Windows or Mac, or the zip archives. You will need a web browser — we recommend Firefox or Internet Explorer.
    • For production installations, use the zip archives. Please read the detailed system requirements.
  2. Please check the version of Confluence which you are installing. Refer to the documentation home page to verify the latest Confluence version and to find documentation for older versions.

Installing and Setting Up Confluence

Two phases: Installation and Setup

There are two phases to the Confluence installation and setup procedure. The instructions on this and following pages will lead you through both phases. Overview:

  • Install Confluence onto your computer. We provide detailed instructions for installing the Standalone edition and the EAR/WAR edition.
  • Provide initial setup information. The Setup Wizard will prompt you for the information needed to get you up and running.

Choose the type of Confluence installation you'd like from the table below, and follow the link(s) to the remaining installation instructions. When you have finished the installation phase, you will be prompted to start the setup phase.

Installation Type

Description

Standalone edition

The 'Standalone' is the simplest installation. Choose this option if any of the following is true:

  • You are evaluating Confluence.
  • You want to use the Apache Tomcat application server bundled with the Confluence application.
  • You're not sure what you want, except to get Confluence up and running with minimum fuss.

EAR/WAR edition

This distribution allows you to deploy Confluence onto your own existing application server, instead of the Apache Tomcat server bundled with the Standalone edition.

Confluence Clusters

Please read the Confluence Clustering Overview and the Cluster Checklist before you consider installing Confluence in a cluster.

Upgrading Confluence

Choose this option if you want to upgrade an existing Confluence installation to a new release of Confluence.

RELATED TOPICS

Upgrading Confluence
System Requirements

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