Installing Confluence
Learn how to install Confluence, the base platform for Brikit.
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Know your role
The person responsible for installing and configuring Confluence and Brikit products is the System Administrator. This role requires both comfort with and confidence in using command-line tools, servers (especially Apache Tomcat), databases, file systems, and network tools.
Know your environment
Will 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, 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 you install will not affect Brikit products. Brikit is ready-to-install once you have a Confluence environment up and running. [[is this totally correct?]]
Download and install
It is best to follow the latest Confluence Installation Instructions from Atlassian's documentation. Roughly, these steps are as follows:
- Download Confluence
- Create the installation directory
- Create the home directory
- Check the ports
- Start Confluence
- Choose installation type
- Enter your license
- Connect to your 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
- Start using Confluence
Install Brikit!
If you are reading these instructions here, you'll likely be installing Brikit as well Follow these instructions on Installing and Uninstalling apps.