Uninstall Confluence Manually From Linux

[Mark Symons]

Having just migrated Confluence v5.6.6 from HSQLDB to MySQL prior to upgrading the "MySQL instance" to Confluence v5.7.1,  I now wish to uninstall/remove the old "HSQLDB instance" of Confluence.

My preference is to manually remove the old Confluence so that I can be absolutely certain that nothing in the new Confluence gets touched.

What would be the process for this?  I have all the logs safely archived and there's no database worry because the (unwanted) HSQLDB is stored in /database under Confluence Home.  is it as simple as:

• zap Old Confluence Install
• Zap Old Confluence Home
• Tidy up init.d (etc)?

[Brian · Accepted solution]

Hi Mark,

That's the basic gist. Remove the directory that Confluence needs to run (the install directory), delete the directory where Confluence stores its data (the home directory), and delete/drop the database. 

If you installed Confluence using the Linux installer, you can use the uninstall command as described here: https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Uninstalling+Confluence+from+Linux.

Hope this helps!

Cheers,

Brian

[Mark Symons]

Thanks for the reassurance. The complete manual uninstall ended up taking no more than a minute or two.. and that included removing the old confluence user.

[Deleted user]

Hate to revive this thread, but I can't figure out for the life of me how to delete the confluence user in order to uninstall Confluence. I suppose I could also just manually delete the installation directory but I'm not entirely sure that's "proper."