This section contains solutions for common issues or queries associated with administering Confluence.
This section focuses on providing instructions to either perform administration-level tasks or customise Confluence's functionality via its Administration Console.
View one of the following issues or queries for more information:
- Add Spell Checking To Confluence
- Can I run multiple instances of Confluence & connect them to a central database?
- Capturing HTTP traffic using Wireshark or Fiddler
- Changing Server ID for Test Installations
- Configuring a Confluence Email Server for Email Notifications
- Copy Or Rename A Space
- Customising Confluence Icons
- Disabling Drag-and-Drop
- Disabling Password management from User
- Disabling Profile Edit from User
- Disabling Theme Selection
- Editing your database password
- Enable public anonymous access
- Find out what is generating files in the Confluence temporary directory.
- Fix Out of Memory Errors by Increasing Available Memory
- Getting a License for a Staging Environment
- How can I retrieve a recently deleted space or page?
- How do I adjust the session timeout
- How do I change the space key?
- How do I check which spaces have email accounts
- How do I configure the Plugin Repository to update its plugins information offline?
- How do I disable indexing of attachments
- How Do I Find My License from the File System?
- How Do I Get More Statistics From Confluence?
- How Do I Identify Inactive Users in Confluence
- How do I know what Confluence version I am running?
- How do I prevent personal spaces from being shown on the dashboard
- How do I Remove a User who has Content Created
- How do I Remove the Last Updated and Created By Text?
- How do I supress cluster warning message in confluence?
- How to Disable Emoticons
- How to display a banner like the Confluence Documentation space
- How to Force Links to Open in a New Window
- How to get a Java Heap Dump
- How to Hide the Referrer
- How to run a SQL script on your database
- How to Search Confluence for Uses of a Macro
- How to turn on Debugging for indexing
- List page- and space-related details for an attachment using the attachment's name
- Migrate Confluence from one database to another
- Migrating from JIRA Issues and JIRA Portlets to Gadgets
- Page Restrictions Performance Considerations
- Preventing and Cleaning Up Spam
- Rebuild the Content Indices from scratch
- Redirect users to a page on login
- Redirect users to a site-wide home page after a successful login
- Restrict Attachments Based On File Type
- Search for User Properties in the Database
- Using Firebug Lite in Internet Explorer when browsing a Confluence page
- What are the IP Address Ranges for Atlassian's Servers?
- Where are the files that used to be in my Confluence installation directory?
- Where are user macros stored?