Configuring a Confluence Environment

This section describes the external setup of your Confluence installation. It includes information on configuring the web server, application server, directories and files – everything to do with the environment that Confluence runs in. For guidelines on modifying settings inside the application, see Configuring Confluence instead.

Confluence is a J2EE web application. On the client side, users access Confluence primarily via a web browser. For a list of important files on the server side, see Important Directories and Files.

This section contains the following guidelines:

• Important Directories and Files
• Application Server Configuration
• Web Server Configuration
• Starting Confluence Automatically on System Startup