Know your roleThe person responsible for installing and configuring Confluence and Brikit products is the System Administrator. This role requires both comfort with, and confidence in, using the command-line interface, servers (especially Apache Tomcat), databases, file systems, and network tools. Know your environmentWill you be installing Confluence on premises, on a local machine, or in the cloud? Do you have an existing database environment (if not, will it be created on premises, locally, or in cloud)? The answers to these questions will affect which Confluence download package you need and how to go about installation. Fortunately, the type of Confluence package you install will not affect which Brikit products are available to you . [[is this absolutely correct?]]later on. Once Confluence is installed, there are no further prerequisites (software, databases, etc.) for installing Brikit. Download and install ConfluenceIt is best to follow the latest latest - Ensure your system has the appropriate prerequisites
- Download Confluence from the Atlassian 's website
- Create an installation directory. This is where the Confluence download will be installed.
- Create a home directory. This is where local files and app-specific files (such as Brikit themes) are kept.
- Check the ports. Confluence requires that two (or more) ports be available in your network.
- Start Confluence.
- Choose an installation typetype
- Enter your license
- Connect to your database. You may need to create a database environment first using MySQL, PostgreSQL, or some other relational database.
- Populate your new site with content (or import it from an existing site)
- Choose where and how to manage users
- Create your administrator account(s)
- Start using Confluence
Install Brikit!If you are reading these instructions here, you'll likely be installing Brikit and other apps. Follow these instructions on Installing and Uninstalling apps. Following installation, you may want to customize the settings and integrations in your Confluence environment. If so, we recommend following the There you can learn about the Confluence Base URL, connecting to mail, setting character encoding, and other customizable system properties.Once you are installed and configured, you are ready to install apps. Install BrikitNow that Confluence is up and running, installing Brikit and other apps is relatively easy. To do so, visit Installing and Uninstalling Apps. |