This page last changed on Dec 16, 2009 by ggaskell.

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Installation Instructions

See the Installing Confluence EAR-WAR on Websphere page for step-by-step instructions.

Supported Application Servers

Check the list of supported application servers on the Supported Platforms topic.

Classloader settings

Confluence 3.0

Confluence 3.0 uses the Plugins 2 framework. The default classloader settings for WebSphere interferes with Plugins 2 dependencies.

The solution is to ensure your WebSphere application is configured with the following settings:

  1. Application classloader policy to SINGLE
  2. Application classloader mode to child-first

Please refer to Running on WebSphere 6.1 for more details.

Oracle and Data Sources

Please use a direct JDBC connection instead. See CONF-3580 for more details.

Configuring Encoding

I am having trouble with the £ and € characters

Confluence allows you to specify which character encoding should be used for its requests. To use the £ and € characters, you will need to use the "UTF-8" option. However, in some cases, WebSphere will encode the characters using ISO-8859-1 before they get to Confluence. If you have set the Confluence character encoding to "UTF-8" and are having problems, have a look at http://www-306.ibm.com/software/globalization/j2ee/encoding.jsp for an explaination of WebSphere and Character encoding. In particular, the -Dclient.encoding.override=UTF-8 system property allows you to override WebSpheres defaults.

Known Issues

NoClassDefFoundError due to Path Size Limit in Windows
Personal Space Results in 500 Error due to Siteminder Configuration
Redirected to Dashboard on Login Due to Page Titles with Spaces (Websphere)
No Trusted Certificate Found when accessing plugin repository (Websphere)
Unable to Install Confluence or Load Plugins on Websphere 6.1
Formatting Buttons Missing on Toolbar of Rich Text Editor due to Application Security on Websphere
Unable to Install Oracle on Websphere due to Classloader Preferences
Unable to Configure Oracle Data Source in Websphere
Troubleshooting Application Servers
MalformedInputException when rebuilding the Did You Mean search index
Problems Loading Plugins due to org.osgi.framework.BundleException

package-scanner-0.7.jar (application/octet-stream)
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