Installing Confluence
Learn how to install Confluence, the base platform for Brikit.
In order to use Brikit's peerless products, you must first install Confluence, the content management environment created by Atlassian. This guide provides a general outline of how to install Confluence. Best practice, however, is to follow the instructions posted on the Atlassian documentation site, accessible in the link below.
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 the command-line interface, 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, 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?]]
Download and install Confluence
It is best to follow the latest Confluence Installation Instructions from Atlassian's documentation. Roughly, these steps are as follows:
- Ensure your system has the appropriate prerequisites
- Download Confluence from the Atlassian website
- Create an installation directory
- Create a home directory
- Check the ports
- Start Confluence
- Choose an 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
Now that Confluence is up and running, installing Brikit and other apps is relatively easy. To do so, visit Installing and Uninstalling apps.