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bluethundr
bluethundr

Reputation: 1325

confluence going to incorrect URL

I tried to modify the ./confluence/WEB-INF/urlrewrite.xmlq

in an attampt to redirect conflunece from the base URL '/' to the '/confluence' URL.

I modified the following lines:

<from>/images/icons/attachments/file.gif</from>
    <to type="permanent-redirect">%{context-     path}/images/icons/contenttypes/attachment_16.png</to>

To say:

<from>/</from>
    <to type="permanent-redirect">%{context-path}/confluence</to>

And NOW what the url

for Confluence stays at this URL which doesn't work.

http://confluence.mycompany.com/confluence.bravotv.com/confluence

Even after reverting the change to urlrewrite.xml from the saved back up and bouncing confluence. It still persist at that broken URL. How do I get confluence to forget the broken URL and use the one it was using before? Is there some cache that needs to be flushed?

Thanks

Upvotes: 2

Views: 436

Answers (1)

Roddy
Roddy

Reputation: 2048

I have been working with the issue of Confluence prefixing a Web Link with the Server Base URL when utilising a relative path; the support call that was raised basically boiled down to: "Unfortunately, on further research I could then confirm that there're no known workaround or an automated way of performing this [keeping a relative URL] and it can only be achieved manually as what you've mentioned."

To resolve the issue, I have written a sed script that post-processes and exported XML backup of the Space. When imported, Confluence keeps the relative path and it works fine (as long as you don't edit it).

I hope this helps.

Upvotes: 1

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