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  1. Confluence Data Center
  2. CONFSERVER-14144

Standalone GUI for all Confluence configuration files and logs

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      NOTE: This suggestion is for Confluence Server. Using Confluence Cloud? See the corresponding suggestion.

      I urge you to develop a standalone GUI executable (i.e. Swing) that can configure our servers, so we can handle all Confluence configuration without having to open a single .xml, .properties, or .out file. Things like connection strings, LDAP, license hash, logs, etc.

      75% of the problems we've had with Confluence have involved some sort of config file issue, and it's been a complete nightmare to figure out which file does what. To make matters worse, even though we have a lot of Linux servers, people at my company have very little Java and Tomcat expertise (don't ask).

      Ideally, between a nice install wizard and this standalone configuration GUI, I would never need to know a thing about Tomcat, Java, XML, etc. and would never need to fire up PuTTY or struggle with vi.

      Having a separate GUI-based configuration program would also solve the "bootstrap" issue, where Confluence needs to be working in order to make certain changes to Confluence.

      Atlassian could avoid a lot of support costs if you had a tool like this. A lot of the issues we've needed to contact Atlassian support for could have been avoided had we had an easy-to-use Microsoft-like config GUI. (Microsoft SQL Server is a particularly good example.)

      If I get some time, maybe I can mock up a UI.

      Thanks for listening,
      Bill

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