Recognised System Properties

confluence.home

1.0

Any filesystem path

Confluence and atlassian-config

If this system property is set, Confluence will ignore the contents of the confluence-init.properties file, and use this property as the setting for the Confluence Home directory.

confluence.devmode

1.0

true

Confluence

Enables additional debugging options that may be of use to Confluence developers. Do not enable this flag on a production system.

atlassian.forceSchemaUpdate

1.0

true

atlassian-config

By default, Confluence will only run its database schema update when it detects that it has been upgraded. This flag will force Confluence to perform the schema update on system startup.

confluence.ignore.debug.logging

1.0

true

Confluence

Confluence will normally log a severe error message if it detects that DEBUG level logging is enabled (as DEBUG logging generally causes a significant degradation in system performance). Setting this property will suppress the error message.

confluence.i18n.reloadbundles

1.0

true

Confluence

Setting this property will cause Confluence to reload its i18n resource bundles every time an internationalised string is looked up. This can be useful when testing translations, but will make Confluence run insanely slowly.

atlassian.disable.caches

2.4

true

atlassian-plugins, atlassian-cache-servlet

Setting this property will disable conditional get and expires: headers on some web resources. This will significantly slow down the user experience, but is useful in devlopment if you are frequently changing static resources and don't want to continually flush your browser cache.