Wasted the morning figuring out how to install Confluence on OS X and getting it to work as a daemon. In case I ever need it again:
- How to start/stop Confluence as a daemon. Not sure why it's not in the 4.x documentation.
- Exposing Confluence on port 80 - here's the short version in case it disappears:
- Create the following configuration file for Apache2 in
/private/etc/apache2/other:
<Proxy *> Order deny,allow Allow from all </Proxy> ProxyRequests Off ProxyPreserveHost On ProxyPass / http://localhost:8090/ ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8090/
- Start (or restart) Apache. Go to System Preferences -> Sharing. Tick “Web Sharing”. Without the file above, all you'll see on http://localhost is a page saying "It works!"
- Create the following configuration file for Apache2 in
This is working with Confluence 4.1.3 and on OS X 10.7.2.
I shudder to think of the amount of hair pulling I'd have went through if I'd tried to get this set up without Google (or equivalent).
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