Confluence Installation Guide

Please review the system requirements before installing Confluence:

CLIENT REQUIREMENTS

Clients can access Confluence using:

Internet Explorer 6 or later
Firefox
Mozilla-based browsers (Some do not support Rich Text Editing)

SERVER REQUIREMENTS

Server load depends primarily on the number of users online at once and their usage of Confluence.

Under 25 Online Users

1GHz+ CPU Pentium 4 or equivalent
256MB RAM

Over 25 Online Users

Dual 2.4GHz CPU Pentium Xeon or equivalent
512MB+ RAM

See Server Hardware Requirements Guide for details.

OPERATING SYSTEM

Supported operating systems:

Any OS that supports J2EE 1.4
Windows
Linux
Mac OS X
Solaris
AIX
Unix

Virtual Environments such as VMware are not recommended and thus not supported for clustered Confluence.

DISK SPACE

Confluence Install Directory - 250MB

Install files
Nightly site backups
Temporary files

Confluence Home Directory or External Database - 250MB minimum

Text content
File attachments

JAVA

Confluence requires JDK 1.4 or later.

JDK 1.6 is not yet fully supported

DATABASE

Confluence is bundled with a pre-configured HSQL database for evaluation purposes only.

For safe production use, Confluence must be configured to use one of the following databases:

If your database does not appear on this list, please read the Supported Platforms FAQ.

Fully Supported

PostgreSQL 8+
MySQL 4.1+ (MySQL 5.0 is supported when used with Confluence 2.5 and above)
Oracle 10g+
DB2 8.2+ (However DB2 on AS/400 is NOT Supported)

Supported with Minor Workarounds

PostgreSQL 7.1+
Oracle 8i, 9i or later
Microsoft SQL Server 2000+
Sybase ASE 12.5.1+

If you have no preference, PostGreSQL is scalable, free and easy to setup. For database setup information, see Database Configuration.

SELECT CONFLUENCE EDITION

Confluence can be deployed in either:

Standalone Edition

Ready for production use after connection to an external database
Packaged with Apache Tomcat for performance and scalability
Recommended for evaluation users

Next Standalone Install Guide

EAR-WAR Edition

Deploys into an existing application server
Suitable only for server administrators

Next EAR-WAR Install Guide

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