Installation/Crowd/DB Import issues with Confluence 4

Question

Fresh install of CentOS 5.6, with Confluence 4.0 installed. Once the initial configuration is completed, and Crowd is connected to my local MS AD server, it synchronizes fine. After synchronization, I imported my existing confluence 3.x backup into Confluence and I immediately get locked out of the application. No username will allow login, not even admin.

Blowing away the old installation, db, and whatnot allows me to get back in for configuration, but that's all I can do.

Notes:

My old Confluence server is in a different environment, and we are connecting to a different AD server, if that matters.

Does anybody see an obvious problem here?

Wen Batiz-Vegas · Answer

By the way, do you know where to find the 3.5 bin file? I don't see a collection of prior releases here on your site.

Wen Batiz-Vegas · Answer

That was not mentioned in the 4.0 upgrade info that I reviewed, and might be the missing link.

Thank you for pointing that out.

Jim McCaskey · Answer

Just FYI.  According to the below link, you MUST upgrade to 3.5 first.  Thats the way I have interpreted the documentation anyway.

http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+4.0+Release+Notes#Confluence40ReleaseNotes-ReleaseNotices