How to Change the IP & Port With Confluence

Confluence is an enterprise wiki server designed for business collaboration and information sharing. Confluence includes an Apache Tomcat server, which serves the wiki pages to users' Web browsers. Confluence's Apache Tomcat server serves the wiki on port 8080 and responds to shutdown commands on port 8005 by default. If there's already an application running on the server using these ports, you'll see errors similar to "java.net.BindException: Address already in use:8080." You can change the Confluence port and on the IP address that listens for connections by editing its server.xml file.

Instructions

1. Open Windows Explorer by clicking "Start," "All Programs," "Accessories" and "Windows Explorer."

2. Navigate to the directory the Confluence application is installed on in your system.

3. Double-click the "conf" directory.

4. Right-click the "server.xml" file and click "Edit."

5. Find the line containing "<Server port="8100" shutdown="SHUTDOWN" debug="0">" in the server.xml file and change "8100" to the port you want Confluence to listen on for shutdown messages.

6. Find the line containing "<Connector className="org.apache.coyote.tomcat4.CoyoteConnector" port="8180" minProcessors="5"" and change "8180" to the port you want Confluence to serve the wiki's Web pages on.

7. Find the line containing "maxProcessors="75"," place the cursor at the end of the line, press "Enter," type "address="127.0.0.1"," replacing "127.0.0.1" with the IP address you want Confluence to listen on and press "Enter."

8. Click "File" and "Save."

9. Close Notepad.

10. Click the "Up" button on the WIndows Explorer toolbar and double-click the "bin" folder.

11. Restart the Confluence Web server by double-clicking the "startup.bat" file.

References

• Atlassian: Running Tomcat on a Different Port
• Atlassian: Configuring a MySQL Datasource in Apache Tomcat