Connect fresh Confluence install to DB without UI.

Martin Krupicka

Hello Guys,

 

I am trying write script which will install Confluence, prepare PostgreSQL and automatically connect DB without using UI.

Is there any way how to configure DB connection for fresh Confluence install without UI?

Goal is to have running Confluence with connected DB, so user will add SN key trough UI.

I tried create confluence.cfg.xml file manually but I always ended with non working DB connection (no matter what I tried) .

I will be glad for any advice!

Martin

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

In theory, yes, you can do this.  But it's not as simple as rolling your own cfg file, there's a few configuration files you have to think about (and some database horridness) you need to do

There's two end points in this process too - either you will get your confluence to a point where it is ready to run the installation UI, or you'll be going well past the licence entry point to a Confluence that has finished all the setup.  Getting part way through to the point where a user enters a licence is not going to work because that happens at a point *before* half the config you need in your files is done, and if you put the config in the files, Confluence will think you've got further through the process and fall over.

Either your process needs to get to a point where the "initial configuration wizard" starts (and so there's no database configured yet), or you need to commission a completely installed and ready to run confluence, with the licence already in place, the install wizard effectively finished and the database populated with the all the initial data, ready for an admin to log in and set up the first space.