I have an account with Jira. I downloaded the free trial Confluence version. Tried logging in to Confluence with JIRA login info but can't access it. Why not?
Because you need set user-directory in Confluence
See "Connecting to Crowd or JIRA for User Management"
https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/configuring-user-directories-229838212.html
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