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Confluence 3.5 - Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2 setup

  • AMI: Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS (HVM), SSD Volume Type - ami-234ecc54
  • Instance type: t2.medium, 2cpus, 4GiB memory
  • Protect against accidental termination

  • Separate 20GiB EBS volume for storage, http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-using-volumes.html

  • Security group which allow incoming port 22, 80 and 443.

Install java and postgresql

Atlassion recommends Oracle JDK 6. See https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF35/Supported+Platforms and https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Dashboard+is+not+rendering+properly. 

sudo locale-gen nb_NO.UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-java6-installer

sudo aptitude install postgresql-9.3
Database
Install confluence

3.5.17 is the last version before Atlassian removed the markup support. See Why We Removed the Wiki Markup Editor in Confluence 4.0.

https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/download-archives

sudo apt-get install libice-dev libsm-dev libx11-dev libxext-dev libxp-dev libxt-dev libxtst-dev
sudo useradd --create-home -c "Confluence role account" confluence
cd /opt
sudo wget https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/downloads/binary/confluence-3.5.17-std.tar.gz
sudo tar -xvvzf confluence-3.5.17-std.tar.gz
sudo ln -s confluence-3.5.17-std confluence
sudo chown confluence:confluence confluence -R

sudo vim confluence/confluence/WEB-INF/classes/confluence-init.properties 
wget https://jdbc.postgresql.org/download/postgresql-9.3-1103.jdbc4.jar 
sudo wget https://jdbc.postgresql.org/download/postgresql-9.3-1103.jdbc4.jar 
sudo cp postgresql-9.3-1103.jdbc4.jar confluence/confluence/WEB-INF/lib/
Move data
sudo su - postgres 
/usr/postgres/8.3/bin/pg_dump confluence > /tmp/dump.sql
sudo su - postgres 
psql -U postgres confluence < dump.sql
  • move confluence-data
Read more
  • http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2015/01/install-openjdk-8-ubuntu-14-04-12-04-lts/
  • https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Start+Confluence+Automatically+on+Linux
  • https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF34/Installing+Confluence+Standalone+on+UNIX+or+Linux
  • https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF35/Supported+Platforms
    • https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Dashboard+is+not+rendering+properly