Using Confluence with a Web Proxy

[Alec Keeler]

We have a web proxy configured for servers to gain access to the internet for updates etc

This works fine for gaining access to python pip updates, jenkins plugins, docker containers etc.

Just started trialling Confluence and noticed that my Confluence (running in a container) can't see the Atlassian Marketplace

Now it probably needs the web proxy configuring but when I google how to do this it looks like there is no way of doing this from within confluence itself and starts talking about modifying config file

Is this expected ? In Jenkins its part of the normal admin configuration pages, https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/JenkinsBehindProxy

Is there really no way of doing this simple config from within Confluence itself?

Wondering if I missed something ?

Alec

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

Confluence is a web-application that runs on an application-server (Tomcat).  It doesn't handle its own infrastructural stuff like network connections, it just asks Tomcat.  Jenkins is a totally different architecture (a much simpler one that doesn't suit Confluence).

So, you don't configure Confluence for proxies, you configure Tomcat for it, via the Java virtual machine.  See https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/configuring-web-proxy-support-for-confluence-117068.html

[Alec Keeler]

OK so accept that Confluence doesn't have anything to do this config file change for you.

Unfortunately the instructions given are also wrong and don't work,

For anyone else trying to get this working when updating catalina.properties, the host values required for proxyHost are not a URL as the example shows, but simply the hostname

so     myserver.mycompany.co.uk    not         http://myserver.mycompany.co.uk

For the instructions

http.proxyHost=yourProxyURL should be http.proxyHost=yourProxyHostname