Hi there,
We are looking to upgrade our Confluence 3.5.13 hosted on Windows server 2003 to latest version on windows server 2016. The database is Microsoft SQL. I found this tutorial https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/upgrading-confluence-4578.html, but it seems it is for upgrading confluence on the same hardware, not on a separate one. Can you please provide a suitable tutorial for us?
Please cc ffong@machealth.com.au if possible for your reply.
Thank you.
Frank Fong
Hi Frank,
I would recommend that you first migrate your instance to the new server in order to check that it was successful. Then you can migrate it.
Unfortunately since 3.5.13 is not supported anymore, our 5.10 document is the oldest one we have on how to do that:
Have a look at that article and make sure you're able to successfully move Confluence. Then you can perform the upgrade steps:
You'll be able to obtain those past versions from our Confluence Download Archives.
The article you linked will have all the details on how to properly migrate.
Let us know if you have any questions.
Kind Regards,Shannon
This is Jimi, Frank's colleague.
We have downloaded the installer for 3.5.13 and after extracting we do not understand how to run the application to get it running before upgrading to 5.0.3
Could you please explain the steps to install the application on the new hardware ?
On the new server, we intend to install Microsoft SQL server 2014 or 2012 to run with the 3.5.13 confluence version.
Could you please provide us with a temporary trial license of confluence with full access to be sure that there is no limitation on our new server before transferring our existing license to the new server. this is because we are not sure if we use our license on the new hardware, it will stop the confluence on the production environment which we cannot afford.
Please find below the zip content of the 3.5.13 that we download, please advise the next steps of Action.
Kind Regards,
Jimi
Hi Jimi,
I'm unsure why you are downloading 3.5.13 if you already have it installed and running on your server. From Frank's message, I believe you already have 3.5.13 installed. Is this correct?
You will want to actually download the 5.0.3 version first since you're upgrading your existing Confluence 3.5.13. Then, once you upgrade to 5.0.3 you will upgrade to the latest version.
You can follow the article that Frank sent earlier, on how to upgrade Confluence. Please be sure to carefully read the entire article, as you don't want to miss any steps, but there were instructions on that page on How to Run the Installer.
If you didn't already have 3.5.13 installed, and didn't have any existing Confluence data, then there's no need to upgrade anything, and you can just install from the latest Confluence version. You will want to consult your Server Administrator for more information.
Regarding your MS SQL Server, I can tell you for sure that MS SQL 2014 is not supported in 3.5.13. We no longer have documentation on what is supported in 3.5.* since that version has already reached End of Life. As of 5.3* only 2008, 2008 R2, and 2012 were supported. If you use 2012 with 3.5.* you may run into issues.
Jimi - One more thing;
You can generate an Evaluation license from my.atlassian.com. Let us know if you have any trouble.
Hi Shannon,
Can you please respond to my request ?
it is urgent
I am afraid SQL Server Express is not a supported platform for Confluence 3.5.x: Supported Platforms If this is to be your new Production instance, please use MS SQL Server. Here are the setup instructions for the database for Confluence 3.5: Database Setup for SQL Server
Per the screen shots it looks like you have JAVA_HOME set and are ready to proceed on that front.
Hi Ann,
Thank you for your prompt reply.
On our old confluence server, we are using SQL Server 2005 Express Edition and it is working perfectly fine.(please see below screenshots)
Now we have a new confluence sever running SQL Server 2008 R2 Express Edition.
Shall we proceed with the setup instructions for the database for Confluence 3.5: Database Setup for SQL Server on the new confluence sever ?
As Ann mentioned, Express Edition is not supported. The Supported Platforms page versions refer only to MS SQL Server. Despite it having worked before, it has not been developed for use with Express Edition, meaning there could be major issues in the future.
You will want to change to MS SQL (non-express) and try the setup that way. You also can try using another database that is supported, such as MySQL or Postgres.
Thank you for your reply.
We literally want to use the database temporarily to install Confluence 3.5 version then change it during our migration to the latest version of confluence.
Should we set up our confluence server for evaluation or production ?
If we generate an evaluation license for the purpose of upgrade, does it have any limitation in data migration between our old confluence database to the new database on the new confluence server ?
Or if we retrieve our license key from our old production confluence server, does it allow for double servers to run confluence on the same license or it will affect the old confluence server (which we do not want) ?
Can a support person respond to my request ?
According to your documentation, After running service.bat install confluence. the service will be called Atlassian Confluence and will be configured to start automatically but there is none present in windows service.
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