installing Confluence 5.1 on Mac OS 10.8.3

[Robert Lauriston]

I installed Confluence 5.1-OD-13 on Mac OS 10.8.3 following the instructions here:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF35/Installing+Confluence+Standalone+on+Mac+OS+X+from+Zip+File

Confluence seems to be running but http://localhost:8080 is 404.

sudo lsof -i :8080 shows nothing, sudo lsof -i -nP | grep "8080 (LISTEN)" shows nothing.

localhost is active, I tested that using Apache.

[Patrick Li · Accepted solution]

Sounds like Confluence did not start up successfully. Do you see any errors in Confluence logs (CONFLUENCE_HOME/logs/atlassian-confluence.log)?

[Robert Lauriston]

Jun 25, 2013 2:45:45 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.SetPropertiesRule begin
WARNING: [SetPropertiesRule]{Server} Setting property 'debug' to '0' did not find a matching property.
Jun 25, 2013 2:45:45 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.SetPropertiesRule begin
WARNING: [SetPropertiesRule]{Server/Service/Engine} Setting property 'debug' to '0' did not find a matching property.
Jun 25, 2013 2:45:45 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.SetPropertiesRule begin
WARNING: [SetPropertiesRule]{Server/Service/Engine/Host} Setting property 'debug' to '0' did not find a matching property.
Jun 25, 2013 2:45:45 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.SetPropertiesRule begin
WARNING: [SetPropertiesRule]{Server/Service/Engine/Host/Context} Setting property 'debug' to '0' did not find a matching property.
Jun 25, 2013 2:45:45 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol init
INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8090
Jun 25, 2013 2:45:45 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 251 ms
Jun 25, 2013 2:45:45 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start
INFO: Starting service Tomcat-Standalone
Jun 25, 2013 2:45:45 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/6.0.35
2013-06-25 14:45:46,255 INFO [main] [com.atlassian.confluence.lifecycle] contextInitialized Starting Confluence 5.1-OD-13 [build 4332 based on commit hash d19eb0a3bfb8be622c0ab1a0b04bdc0ee8273a95]
Jun 25, 2013 2:45:51 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol start
INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8090
Jun 25, 2013 2:45:51 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 6529 ms

[Patrick Li]

Try localhost:8090

[nicktruch]

Thanks Felipe, it worked fine ! Now I'm stuck with a "The license you entered was not valid." in the Confluence setup wizard... (as described here : https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/The+License+You+Entered+Was+Not+Valid)...

I've tried to check the permissions but doesn't work.

Regards,

Nicolas

[nicktruch]

Ok I've moved the entire home in my user's hierarchy, modified /Users/myuser/confluence/confluence/WEB-INF/classes/confluence-init.properties and everything works fine now.

Thanks for your help,

Nicolas

[FelipeA]

Hello Nicolas,

You can override this behavior by going to (Apple icon -> System Preferences -> Security & Privacy), click on Open Anyway where it says "OS X - Run Confluence In Background.command" was blocked.

Then change "Allow apps downloaded from:" to "Anywhere", and try to start confluence again, if everything goes ok, switch back this setting to it's previous value, for security reasons.

Regards

[nicktruch]

With Confluence 5.3.1, under MacOSX 10.9, the system doesn't want the .command file to play. It says something like : "impossible to open "OS X - Run Confluence In Background.command" because this app comes from an unidentified developper"... :'(

[Robert Lauriston]

That's on purpose, I plan to export from an OnDemand instance, import into the installed version, do some tasks that require add-ons, export, and import back into OnDemand.

[David at David Simpson Apps]

Using Confluence 5.1-OD-13 suggests that you're running the OnDemand version for Confluence rather than the normal version. Is this on purpose or by pure chance that you've installed the wrong version?

OD == OnDemand -- cryptic, right?

[Robert Lauriston]

Aack, dyslexia strikes again. Thanks.