My server died and requires a new Confluence installation. I have a mysql database backup but cannot get the new Confluence instance to link to that database. What are the steps to link the two?
Hi Henry,
Please read the following documentation.
Cheers
If you have a file system backup of the Confluence Home directory (defined in confluence/WEB-INF/classes/confluence-init.properties) the confluence.cfg.xml file in the root of that folder will "tell" Confluence how to connect to the MySQL database. You will also need to put the MySQL driver in the <installation-directory>/confluence/WEB-INF/lib directory as described in Database Setup For MySQL .
If you don't have a file system back-up, it's a shame because attachments are usually stored in the Home directory but you can get most of your content back by installing a "dummy" instance and then changing the JDBC connection details to the back-up of Production. Please see: How to Generate a New confluence.cfg.xml
Best of luck to you in this endeavor, please let me know how we can help.
Thanks,
Ann
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