This page last changed on Aug 05, 2009 by jlargman.

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Installation Instructions

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

Version Requirements

Visit the List Of Supported Application Servers.

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

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

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