Confluence - Data Center to Server

[Константин Колобанов]

Hello!

I need to switch from Confluence Data Center Evaluation to Confluence Server.

There is a way how to do it - https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf612/moving-from-data-center-to-server-958778567.html

Point 3 says that I need to move the remaining contents of my <shared home> directory to the root of my <local home> directory.

But after I did it, I can’t start сonfluence, because /etc/init.d/confluence runs confluence service from <shared home> directory, which is empty now.

Maybe I do not understand something?

[Stephen Sifers · Accepted solution]

Hello Константин and welcome to the Community!

You following the instructions perfectly. The issue you are having is due to Confluence being installed and setup as a service. Since you have moved the application path, the service will not start since nothing is there to start.

With this said, you can manually start/stop Confluence by executing the following:

Windows:

• To start Confluence run <installation-directory>\bin\start-confluence.bat
• To stop Confluence run <installation-directory>\bin\stop-confluence.bat

Linux:

• To start Confluence run <installation-directory>\bin\start-confluence.sh
• To stop Confluence run <installation-directory>\bin\stop-confluence.sh

Source document: Start and Stop Confluence

Once you manually start the Confluence instance, you should be able to progress through the migration process.

Moving forward, you will need to modify your Confluence service to point to the new directory. This is a multi-step process which you can find out more about in Start Confluence Automatically on Linux.

I hope you find this helpful and it allows you to progress forward with your migration.

Regards,
Stephen Sifers