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Public Site With Limited Access - Not Searchable On The Web But Available To Chosen "Public" Users
Asked by Karl Burkum:

Is there a way to expose a Confluence space to the public but only have it visible by people that have the link? This might be better explained in an example.

Would like to expose some product documentation / Help via a public Confluence site. We would link to the site using a Help menu within our hosted web application. I would like only users of our application to have access to this content and not have it searchable to the public as a whole? The users that would have access would not be Confluence users and would not have a need to comment, edit, etc. in Confluence. They would only need view access.

The parallel example that I equate this to is a Picasa (Google) photo album. I can choose to make an album accessibel to the public, but only to people that have a special URL that gives them access, but not "the world."

Have others done this in some manner? Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer.

To clarify, our instance is an on-demand / hosted instance.


Answers:
author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi Karl,

Appending ?os_username=\<username\>\&os_password=\<password\> to the URL works on the downloaded version, so might work with OnDemand.

Andrew.

comments: author: Karl Burkum
body: This works in the hosted environment too. Thanks for the thoughts / URL parameter!


author: Nick Muldoon
body: Hi Roger, Karl,

It's been a while since this question was asked, coming to the party late with a suggestion if you're using Confluence Cloud.

[Instant Websites for Confluence Cloud](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/instant-websites) enables you to publish a space to a public, static, and mobile responsive website. May be useful for your scenarios. We use it for [product documentation](http://docs.arijea.com/documentation/redaction/redaction-for-confluence-user-guide/) as well.

Thanks, have a great day,  
Nick


author: Karl Burkum
body: Curious if it is possible to set up an account (one tick against our license quantity) and pass in the credentials in the URL? I realize the username and password would potentially be visible in the URL, but that account would have just "view" rights. Is this an option that could be considered - still keeping the content out of search engines?

comments: author: Roger Lee
body: Karl,Were you able to figure this out? We were running into licensing issues in using a single read-only login to accomplish this (i.e. using a shared login).Thanks!-Roger


author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi Karl,

I don't think this is possible with OnDemand. If you're able to apply Custom HTML or modify a Space Layout then you could add:

\<meta name="robots" content="noindex"\>

to stop search engines indexing it, but as OnDemand uses a custom theme I believe you're restricted from making any changes to it.

You can make specific Spaces accessible to anonymous users so that users don't have to have accounts and count against your license, but the content would be public and could potentially be indexed.

Andrew.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud

instant-website
Placing logo above Confluence navigation menu
Asked by Eugene M:

Hi all,

Could you please help me with a quick question. I would like to place a logo above the Confluence navigation menu. For example, as it is done on this page: [https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/display/WikiTrainFAQsTips/Wiki+FAQs%2C+Tips+and+Guidelines](https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/display/WikiTrainFAQsTips/Wiki+FAQs%252C+Tips+and+Guidelines)

How to do it? I have admin's rights to manage a Confluence space and currently use "Documentation Theme", but I do not have access to any Confluence files on a server. Thank in advance.


Answers:
author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi Euguene,

I don't think you can have your layout the same as the example you provided if you're just the Space Administrator. I believe in the example they have inserted Custom HTML at the end of the HEAD via Browse -\> Confluence Admin -\> Look and Feel -\> Custom HTML and inserted some html at the end of the HEAD to give them their top banner.

With the Documentation Theme you can select Browse -\> Space Admin -\> Themes -\> Documentation Theme -\> Configure Theme where you have a text box to insert wiki markup in the header, but the markup you place in here is inserted below the navigation, not above it.

If you're using the Global Look and Feel theme you can select Layout and create custom for the Main Layout and enter the HTML for the logo you want as highlighted below:

## HTML BODY BEGINS

\<body #onLoadAttr() id="com-atlassian-confluence" class="$!theme.moduleKey $!sitemeshPage.getProperty("page.bodyClass")"\>

#parse ("/decorators/includes/main-content-includes.vm")

\<ul id="assistive-skip-links" class="assistive"\>

\<li\>\<a href="#title-heading"\>$action.getText("assistive.skiplink.to.content")\</a\>\</li\>

\<li\>\<a href="\\#breadcrumbs"\>$action.getText("assistive.skiplink.to.breadcrumbs")\</a\>\</li\>

\<li\>\<a href="#header-menu-bar"\>$action.getText("assistive.skiplink.to.header.menu")\</a\>\</li\>

\<li\>\<a href="#navigation"\>$action.getText("assistive.skiplink.to.action.menu")\</a\>\</li\>

\<li\>\<a href="#quick-search-query"\>$action.getText("assistive.skiplink.to.quick.search")\</a\>\</li\>

\</ul\>

**## PUT YOUR LOGO HTML HERE**

\<div id="page"\>

If you wanted to use the Global Look and Feel theme you could add a left hand navigation similar to the Documentation theme by following the instructions at <http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Adding+a+Navigation+Sidebar>

Would Global Look and Feel with a custom left navigation work for you?

Andrew.
trouble with Shibboleth remoteUserAuth plugin on Confluence 4.1.4
Asked by Greg Mason:

I'm trying to upgrade our out-of-date Confluence 3.3 installation up to 4.1.4. The first step of this is getting Confluence 4.1.4 running in a development environment.

I've got Apache, shibd and Confluence running on RHEL 6.2, but confluence logins do not work. I've verfied which shibboleth headers to use in the remoteUserAuthenticator.properties configuration file and i've edited seraph-config.xml as appropriate, but logins still don't work in Confluence. When trying to log into Confluence, it will redirect over to our campus Shibboleth IdP, but when redirected back to Confluence I am not logged in.

I have verifed that Shibboleth is functioning correctly on the system. I'm not having much luck in tracking down where the issue is, the Confluence logs aren't very helpful...

I've changed the following lines in remoteUserAuthenticator.properties:

```
header.fullname=displayNameheader.email=mailheader.remote_user=REMOTE_USER
```

UPDATE:

I've tried to get debug logging up as per the directions here: <https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/SHBL/Confluence+Shibboleth+Authenticator>

But i'm not getting anything in the catalina.out or atlassian-confluence.log logfiles during an attempted login with Shibboleth.

Any other ideas?

Thanks,

-Greg


Answers:
author: Joe Clark
body: What version of the shib authenticator are you using? I was working back and forth with Gary W. on it a month or so ago fixing some incompatibilities with newer versions of Confluence. You might need a newer version?

comments: author: Greg Mason
body: I'm using version 2.1.11, the latest that's available at https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/SHBL/Confluence+Shibboleth+Authenticator


Tags: shibboleth
Lookup of other confluence pages
Asked by Christian Christian:

In Confluence there is this fabulous feature to create links to other pages by using \[ and start to type the name of the page you want to refer to.

Now if you do have 2 pages with the names

1) "MD-MM - Material Management" and

2) "MD-MM001 - Material Master"

and you try to link to 1) by typing "\[MD-MM - Ma" it does show you the link and you can select it with the arrow keys.

But if you try to link to 2) by typing "\[MD-MM001 - Ma" it does not show any result. You need to select "search for MD-MM001 - Ma" and then you manually need to select the page and then manually need to change the link text.

Is there any settings where this is controlled? I need to create links to tons of pages and if the functionality with "\[" is not working it ends up with a looooot of work.

regs,

Christian


Answers:
author: Andrew Frayling
body: Hi Christian,

I'd raise a support ticket via [support@atlassian.com](mailto:support@atlassian.com) to ask how Confluence indexes content with "-" in the page title. I tested with the examples you gave and the autocomplete works and displays both pages in the results if you just type "MD-" , but as soon as I entered the first "M" after the "-" it was only picking up the "MD-MM Material Management" entry. I also tried with other pages that had the same characters and numbers at the beginning, but did not have a "-" and autocomplete worked correctly for these pages. Finally, I tried testing with pages beginning with "MDA-" and got the same behaviour as for your pages so I think it's something to do with how Confluence tokenizes and indexes titles with a "-" in them, which you cannot control via the UI.

You can re-index Confluence via Browse -\> Confluence Admin -\> Content Indexing, but that's the only control you have via the UI.

Is just typing "MD-" a viable workaround or does that generate too many results in the suggested links dialog?

Andrew.

EDIT: I just tried with Quicknav search at the top right hand of the screen as well and got the same behaviour with pages with a "-" in them, as soon as you enter "MD-M" you only get the "MD-MM - Material Management" page returned in the results.
After upgrade (3.2->3.5) SQL Plugin no longer renders HTML
Asked by andrey dmitriev:

```
{sql:datasource=MINE|output=html|columnLabel=true}
```

Instead of renderring HTML, you just see HTML in the table cells.

Can this behaviour be changed?

<br />


Answers:
author: Remo Siegwart
body: In newer versions of the SQL Plugin there is a parameter **disableAntiXss** which you need to set to true, otherwise the html output would be escaped. See [documentation](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/SQL/Confluence+SQL+Plugin#ConfluenceSQLPlugin-Parameters).

```
{sql:datasource=MINE|output=html|columnLabel=true|disableAntiXss=true}
```

For security reasons, use of this parameter is restricted to authorized users. It can be enabled by configuring security using the [Confluence Macro Security Plugin](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/CMSP).

Hope this helps

comments: author: Bob Swift (personal)
body: Just to add another reference to Remo's answer: [SQL Plugin 4.1.0 released](https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/SQL/2011/02/07/SQL+Plugin+4.1.0+released)


author: andrey dmitriev
body: I ended up disabling the security "feature"


Tags: sql
Is Confluence compatible with IE9?
Asked by lfobel:

![](../../upfiles/IE9_Cut_Paste_Problem.JPG)We are running Confluence v4.0.5. Those of us using IE9 can't get the cut and paste to work in edit mode when using IE9. It works fine in IE8. Is there a fix or workaround for this issue.


Answers:
author: Matt
body: Hi @lfobel -- are you referring to the ability to paste images from your clipboard into the editor?

IE 9 is a supported browser, however there are certain features that are not supported by IE. Unfortunately, we could not implement this in Internet Explorer due to IE not having the appropriate support for the Clipboard API. We do intend on implementing this for IE once this is complete. You can track that issue here: [CONF-23235](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-23235)

comments: author: lfobel
body: Note necessarily an image. If we try to cut and paste text from a Word document, the same error occurs.


author: Matt
body: I see - that's very odd. I'd suggest filing a support request at <http://suppoprt.atlassian.com> so we can identofy the cause of the problem.


author: lfobel
body: Will do. Thanks.


author: Radu Dumitriu
body: The question is badly formulated. You should ask: is IE9 compatible with anything ? :))


author: Markku Sopula
body: We have similar problem with same version of confluence? Is there issue linked to this and is it solved in later versions?


Tags: browser
Is Confluence a File Sharing Cloud Storage Solution like Box.net ?
Asked by Walter Ordonez:

**Is Confluence a File Sharing Cloud Storage Solution like [Box.net](http://Box.net) ?**


Answers:
author: Daniel Samuels
body: Yes confluence is a Wiki not a stright out cloud strorage solution like [box.net](http://box.net)or [dropbox.com](http://dropbox.com), but with a little management you could use confluence like a basic cloud storgage solution.

I would make a directory of pages that would act like your 'folders' and then use some of the native attachment macros to show documents on each of the pages. You can craete a directory page, so people know the pages (folders) available and even add searching capabilities.

Then with native confleunce versioning you can ensure you track each new version of a file (just make sure to upload each file with the same name) - the system will then track who uploaded and when for you.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: No. It's a wiki.

Do you have specific questions about it?


Tags: file

new-to-confluence

share
A small Confluence installation on a 512MB virtual server - possible?
Asked by Kristian Rasmussen:

I need a small Confluence with few simultaneous users, so I've subscribed to a cheap Ubuntu virtual server with 512 MB ram at alvotech.de and installed Confluence onto it. Now, my problem is that Confluence keeps hogging 4-500 MB of memory, which ultimately crashes the server as soon as it's put under just a little bit of pressure.

To reduce its memory usage I've tried two things (simultaneously):

1) Halved the allowed sizes in JAVA_OPTS so that it's now:
> -Xms128m -Xmx256m -XX:MaxPermSize=128m

2) Tried to disable caching by setting, in ehcache.xml:
> maxElementsInMemory="0"

Neither has any effect on memory usage - it's still around 4-500 MB.

Am I way off track here? Should I give up and buy myself a larger, non-virtual server? Or is it possible to get the memory usage below 512 MB?


Answers:
author: Thomas Wendel
body: Hello Kristian,

Virtualisation is not a problem at all. We run several instances of Atlassian products on virtual Linux servers. The problem as I see it is the amount of memory your virtual server has. [Confluence alone needs 512 MB as a minimum.](http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Server+Hardware+Requirements+Guide)

Have you considered signing-up for [Confluence OnDemand](http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/pricing) instead? Starting at USD 10.-- it is probably cheaper than your hosted Linux server and you don't have to worry about anything (Updates, security-fixes, etc.) at all.

Cheers,

Thomas


author: Sergey E. Zaytsev
body: Check the swapfile on server.

Make swapfile 1G (or extend swap partition).

It should be enough for work 1-2 users, but slow enough.


author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: Very unlikely to work with 512MB. Confluence needs more memory with all the plugins it has now. I suggest you try 1GB (atleast!)!


Tags: memory
How can I adjust dashboard panel width in Confluence 4.1
Asked by John Ryan:

In Confluence 3, it was easy to adjust the width of the dashboard panels.

I want to switch to the new layout in Confluence 4, but the left panel is only about 30% of the screen width. See screenshot.

I have some quite long space names, so the right side of the screen is almost empty.

There's a parameter in the default layout called infoPanelWidth, but I can't find any infomation about it.

#set ($infoPanelWidth = $params.get("infopanel-width"))

Can anyone help?

John![](../../upfiles/Capture.JPG)


Answers:
author: Remo Siegwart
body: Not sure whether the infoPanelWidth parameter is still in use, but you could insert the following CSS in **Browse =\> Confluence Admin =\> Stylesheet** to adjust the width of the left and the right dashboard column:

```
div.dashboard .dashboard-group.left {  width: 50%;}div.dashboard .dashboard-group.right {  width: 50%;}
```

Hope this helps

comments: author: John Ryan
body: Thanks Remo


author: 666
body: Thanks a 100 million! :)
Is there any way to allow Confluence users to select multiple wiki pages and merge them into a single pdf document?
Asked by Sarah Jacob:

Hi there,

I am looking for a tool that will allow users to select multiple pages (not necessarily in the same space) and export them to a single pdf file?

Many thanks,

Sarah


Answers:
author: Joerg Bencke
body: Within a space : Go to space-administration -\> pdf export -\> select pages -\> generate

No matter which source :

* Create a page, add "include" makros including the pages in question _\> export page to PDF
* or: Create a set of pages in a tree and export the tree to pdf via space-administration -\> pdf export -\> select tree -\> generate


author: calo
body: PDF Merge tool is necessary, and here's a guide about [merging pdf file](http://www.rasteredge.com/how-to/csharp-imaging/pdf-merge/).
Removing the Plugin Repository and installing the UPM on Confluence 3.2.1_01
Asked by JT:

We are currently running Confluece 3.2.1_01 and preparing to move to 3.5. I would like to install the UPM prior to the move to 3.5 so that I can verify plugin compatibility. When I look at my plugin directories on the server, here is what I am seeing:

1 - Duplicate/Multiple copies of the same plugin

2 - Plugins with names like 1328656447993downloadedPlugin.ermljqr8lepzzhrGjfwP.36699.jar

3 - Multiple versions of the same plugin

I believe all of these issues will cause problems with the UPM.

Does anyone have any suggestions on the best way to 'clean-up' the plugin directories?

How do I identify plugins that look like the example in Item 2?


Answers:
author: Joe Clark
body: The plugins with random jar names are temporary or intermediate files that can be safely deleted. Confluence stores canonical data for plugins *in* the database - information is extracted to disk only as needed into temporary caches.

You can safely delete the contents of the following directories, if you want to clean up the plugin cache:

* \<tt\>\<confluence-home\>/bundled-plugins\</tt\>
* \<tt\>\<confluence-home\>/plugin-cache\</tt\>
* \<tt\>\<confluence-home\>/plugins-osgi-cache\</tt\>
* \<tt\>\<confluence-home\>/plugins-temp\</tt\>
* \<tt\>\<confluence-home\>/bundled-plugins_language\</tt\>

comments: author: JT
body: Thank you Joseph!!!


Tags: universal-plugin-manager
Copying intranet content via WebDAV gives page naming error
Asked by Jason Pepper:

I'm trying to import a whole directory tree from a samba server into our new shiny confluence instance using webdav..

Problem is we have directories that are duplicated e.g.

* 2007
  * Q1
  * Q2
  * Q3
  * Q4
* 2008
  * Q1
  * Q2

etc etc..

Is there any way around the need for unique page names within a space, OR a way to add a number to the instance of that name just so I can get them imported ?

Thanks


Answers:
author: Jason Pepper
body: Answer from Atlassian, sadly in the negative..
> "I'm afraid there's no quick way around this, as Confluence will not allow duplicate page names. A short term solution might be to move them into separate spaces If you want to move the content into the same space later on, you will need to rename those pages so that there are no duplicates.
>
> Short of that, if you need to import them into the same space at the get-go, there's no easy way aside from manually renaming the duplicate directories."


author: Jason Pepper
body: other people must have done this before - how do other people move large quantities of files from a file server into confluence ?

I know you do it via webdav, but how do other people get around the page-naming restrictions ?
Upgrading Confluence 3.2.1 32-bit to 4.1.5 64-bit (linux)
Asked by stuartu:

We have an old version of Confluence (3.2.1_01 32-bit), and want to move up to 4.1.5.

I understand that we have to upgrade to 3.5 first, but we also want to move to 64-bit.

Is there a recommended way of doing this?... perhaps upgrade through to 4.1.5, then do the 64-bit as a separate upgrade later? Or perhaps there is an alternate (easier?) way of doing this. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see any 64-bit for 3.5 in the available downloads for Linux.


Answers:
author: Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]
body: You can upgrade directly to 4.1. Follow this notes:

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Upgrading+Confluence+Manually>

There is no harm in moving to 64-bit at the same time but it will probably be a bit easier if you do it in 2 steps. Atleast, it will be easier to debug if something goes wrong. I suggest you follow this after the upgrade:

<http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Migrating+Confluence+Between+Servers>

comments: author: stuartu
body: Thanks. I must have misread that document earlier, as I interpreted the following section that it wouldn't be a good idea to import the data, but that rather, the environment should be upgraded.

" Importing an old XML backup file to a new major version (i.e Confluence 3.5 to Confluence 4.0) **is not recommended** . Please recreate your production instance in a test environment first."


author: Joe Clark
body: The "bitness" (32 or 64) of Confluence is determined by the edition of Java that you use to run Confluence. You can use a 32-bit Java installation or a 64-bit Java installation to run the same Confluence package - the download from Atlassian is the same, regardless.


Tags: upgrade
Edit in Office is not working in confluence (window 7)?
Asked by SherryX:

in Confluence I'd like to open my attached Word document/excel spreadsheet etc. to edit and after authorisation, an empty(all grey out) document comes up. I use Window 7.

Anyone can help?

Thanks in advance!


Answers:
author: Christian Czaia _Decadis AG_
body: Hey,

have a look at those questions as they are related to your problem:

[https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/31720/edit-in-office-link-is-not-working-in-confluence](/questions/31720/edit-in-office-link-is-not-working-in-confluence)

[https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/32380/can-t-use-edit-in-office-in-confluence-v4?page=1#32607](/questions/32380/can-t-use-edit-in-office-in-confluence-v4?page=1#32607)

Cheers Christian


Tags: configuration

ms-office

windows