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Confluence FAQ
Solutions to frequently asked questions and queries about Confluence and commonly encountered issues with the product:
Administration FAQ
- Add Spell Checking To Confluence
- Can I run multiple instances of Confluence & connect them to a central database?
- Capturing HTTP traffic using Wireshark or Fiddler
- Configuring Confluence to send email notifications
- Copy Or Rename A Space
- Customising Confluence Icons
- Disable public account signups
- Disabling Password management from User
- Disabling Profile Edit from User
- Disabling Theme Selection
- Displaying System Properties
- Editing your database password
- Enable public anonymous access
- Find out what is generating files in the Confluence temporary directory.
- Fix Out of Memory errors by Increasing Available Memory
- Getting a License for a Staging Environment
- How can I retrieve a recently deleted space or page?
- How do I adjust the session timeout
- How do I change the space key?
- How do I check which spaces have email accounts
- How do I configure the Plugin Repository to update its plugins information offline?
- How do I disable indexing of attachments
- How Do I Find My License from the File System?
- How do I find out when my scheduled Job runs and how long it runs for?
- How Do I Get More Statistics From Confluence?
- How Do I Identify Inactive Users in Confluence
- How do I know what Confluence version I am running?
- How do I make commenters added as page watchers automatically?
- How do I prevent personal spaces from being shown on the dashboard
- How do I Remove a User who has Content Created
- How do I Remove the Last Updated and Created By Text?
- How do I supress cluster warning message in confluence?
- How to Disable Emoticons
- How to display a banner like the Confluence Documentation space
- How to Force Links to Open in a New Window
- How to get a Java Heap Dump
- How to Hide the Referrer
- How to run a SQL script on your database
- How to Search Confluence for Uses of a Macro
- How to turn on Debugging for indexing
- List page- and space-related details for an attachment using the attachment's name
- Migrate Confluence from one database to another
- Migrating from JIRA Issues and JIRA Portlets to Gadgets
- Need to Change Server ID for Test Install
- Page Restrictions Performance Considerations
- Passing username and password via URL
- Preventing and Cleaning up SPAM
- Rebuild the Content Indices from scratch
- Redirect users to a page on login
- Redirect users to a site-wide home page after a successful login
- Restrict Attachments Based On File Type
- Search for User Properties in the Database
- Using Firebug Lite in Internet Explorer when browsing a Confluence page
- What are the IP Address Ranges for Atlassian's Servers?
- Where are the files that used to be in my Confluence installation directory?
- Where are user macros stored?
Backup FAQ
- Are there any scripts for backup creation and restore?
- Backup will not import
- Can Confluence be restored from a backup minus attachments?
- Can XML backups be deleted automatically?
- Does running a daily XML backup slow performance?
- How can I reduce the space taken up by automatic backups?
- How to Change the Version of a Space Backup
- How to Find Attachments in Attachments Folder
- Is it Possible to Store the Confluence Home Directory on a Network Share?
- Providing MySQL database with Content Anonymised
Configuration FAQ
- Remove Version from Footer
- How do I Configure an Automatic Refresh of the Recently Updated List
- How do i completely remove the "Space Details" page from Confluence exports?
- Disabling Profile Pictures on the Recently Updated Dashboard
- How to Disable Profile Pictures from the Recently Updated Section of the Dashboard
- How to dump Active Directory data to a file
- How do I use HTTPS for login only?
- Running Tomcat on a Different Port
- How to Revert from Clustering to Single Node
- Adding a Site-Wide Banner
- Editing the Footer
- Disable "Remember my login on this computer"
- How do I pull down RSS Feeds or use the Repository plugin through a web proxy
- How do I Modify the Frequency of Content Indexing
- Customise Confluence Page Exports
- How do I disable RSS Feeds?
- Where does Confluence store all its data?
- Running Confluence Behind a Caching Proxy Server
- I am trying to install Confluence but the demo-site.zip file is missing
- How do I Disable Automatic Mail Polling?
- How do I change the default polling time for email in Confluence?
- Change default font, color, or spacing in Confluence
- Share users and groups between Confluence and JIRA
- How do I Change the Time of Daily Report Updates
- Disabling Attachment Downloads
- How to audit Confluence - enabling user access logging
- How do I configure Confluence to use GMail as the mail server
Installation FAQ
- Separate the Home and Install directories in Confluence 3.2
- I receive a BUILD FAILED message when trying to create an EAR file in Confluence 2.6 or 2.7
- The Confluence window closes immediately when started
- How do I re-trigger the setup wizard
- Confluence starts but a problem prevents me from accessing the dashboard
- How much disk space does Confluence need?
- How Do I Make Confluence Accessible from the Root Context with a Tomcat EAR WAR configuration
- How To Run Confluence Standalone and Apache on Port 80 (Different IP Addresses)
- Deploying Multiple Atlassian Applications in a Single Tomcat Container
JIRA Integration FAQ
- The JIRA Issues Macro behaves problematically
- The JIRA Issues Macro generates an error
- When setting up JIRA user management in Confluence, the Confluence login page loads but login fails
- When setting up JIRA user management in Confluence, the Confluence login page loads with an error
LDAP FAQ
- Are all users in LDAP visible in Confluence administration and can they can be assigned permissions or to groups?
- Can we use LDAP and Confluence groups simultaneously, as a 'mixed mode', where some groups are kept in Confluence and others in LDAP?
- Confluence Domino LDAP FAQs
- Confluence integration with LDAP and Active Directory FAQs
- How are LDAP or Active Directory users counted toward my license limit?
- How can I assign an LDAP user a Confluence account?
- How can I enable LDAP?
- How does Confluence handle user deletions from LDAP? Is the user's assignment to one or more groups still visible?
- I am having a problem with Confluence LDAP integration
- I enabled LDAP and some users are now returned twice under the user browser
- If a Confluence user had a lowercase username, but an LDAP user has the same username in UPPERCASE, does it matter which one I use?
- If a user already exists in Confluence and an LDAP user with the same username is added, which account's password gets used?
Mail Archiving FAQ
- Can Confluence replace my regular mail client?
- How do I get mail into Confluence?
- How do I use the mail archive?
- Okay, I've imported the mail, but where is it?
New User FAQ
- Can I use CamelCaseLinks like they do on WardsWiki?
- Can Users Edit Individual Sections Within a Page?
- How does Confluence differ from a wiki?
RSS Feeds FAQ
- Create an RSS feed for mail from only specified mail accounts
- How do I fix a "Could not download (Feed URL) - Connection timed out (errno238)" error?
- How do I fix a "Could not retrieve (Feed URL) - Not Permitted" error?
- How do I fix an "Error formatting 'macro rss java.lang.NullPointerException'" error?
- How do I fix an "Unable to retrieve (Feed URL) - Connection refused - connect" error?
- How do I force authentication for public feeds?
- Is it possible to delete a feed?
- I want to remove RSS Feeds completely
Upgrade FAQ
- I cannot find the "Rich Text" editor. Is the editor part of Confluence 1.4.3?
- Server ID FAQ
- Upgrade My Trial To A Commercial Version
Usage FAQ
- Add many files to a page at once
- Create a page by passing parameters to a template
- How do I obtain content that hasn't been modified in a certain period of time
- How to Add a Quick Search for Firefox
- How to disable PDF Export
- How to Find Pages with no Label
- How to Make Confluence Open a New Tab when Clicking on the Attachments Link
- How to Reset a Custom Layout
- Redirect to a specific page (home page) within the site after logging in
- Setup email notifications of page updates
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