how do i restart the confluence installation from the beginning

[Todd Huntley]

I had to reinstall confluence.  I had a DB from first install still in place.  I tried reusing and it blew up. I stop the configuration rebooted the host and drop the original DB and created a new one.  Now I just want the configuration to restart from the beginning.

[AnnWorley · Accepted solution]

When Confluence starts up it looks for the file confluence.cfg.xml in the root of the home directory (defined in the following file: <confluence_install>/confluence/WEB-INF/classes/confluence-init.properties). If it does not find the  confluence.cfg.xml file, the setup wizard will start again.

My recommendation is to define a confluence.home that points to an empty directory, to which the user running Confluence has full permissions.