Make contributions publicly accessible without login
Asked by Testuser:

HI

I signed up today to test Confluence, I've only heard good things about it on Google.  
I have a question about Confluence.

Is it possible to have Confluence with a free subscription?  
I would like to set up Confluence as a wiki and make the contributions publicly available, how does this work?

Kind regards

Yves


Answers:
author: Alex Koxaras _Relational_
body: Hi [@Testuser](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5066564)

Confluence has a free plan for up to 10 users (<https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/pricing>)

You can then take advantage of the pubic access feature and have it open for the public <https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/set-up-public-access/>

comments: author: Testuser
body: Thanks for the info

I am in the settings -\> global permissions -\> anonymous access, unfortunately I cannot make any changes there. Is this not possible during the test phase? But in the free version it works?


author: Testuser
body: Where can I set that the anonymous user has read rights to areas and pages?  
Can I set this globally somewhere? I hope that I do not have to set this every time.


author: Alex Koxaras _Relational_
body: [@Testuser](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5066564) is the following edit button visible to you?

![edit anonymous.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/223235i5462F815112EE67F/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "edit anonymous.png")

You can read the documentation to obtain all this knowledge you are asking :)

First you open your instance to anonymous access, and then for every space you need anonymous access, you grant them the rights you want.


author: Alex Koxaras _Relational_
body: [@Testuser](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5066564)
> Do you have to create an area, or can you start right away with pages?  
> Can I hide links on the "Overview, Blog, Calendar" page?  
> <https://test2022test.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/BereichTest/>

you can hide them from the settings:

![space settings.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/223236i7058F74ED760AD50/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "space settings.png")


author: Testuser
body: Thank you, I was able to set it that way.

Last question for now I think  
Then I can set it up the way I want.

Do I have to create a section, or can I start with pages right away?

I would like that when someone enters <https://test2022test.atlassian.net/> they go directly to the page and Lins sees the page structure and doesn't have to select a section first.


author: Alex Koxaras _Relational_
body: [@Testuser](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5066564) from Fruther configuration you can set the homepage, which will be a space, but not a particular page.

![further config.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/223240i0BB79F6C6CA411D3/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "further config.png")


author: Testuser
body: Thanks for the info

Last question, can I change the address from "<https://test2022test.atlassian.net/wiki>" to "<https://projekt2023.atlassian.net/wiki/>".


author: Alex Koxaras _Relational_
body: nope, you have to create a new instance with the name projekt2023


author: Testuser
body: When I go to Administration at the top left, 2 admin areas appear for me to select.  
How can I remove the bottom entry?  
The top one is correct.


author: Testuser
body: I have selected the area as the start page, but it is still not displayed.


author: Testuser
body: I was able to customise the AnonymUser in the test version "Standard".  
But I went back to Free because this is currently enough for me.  
I am the sole administrator for the site. However, I would like everyone to be able to view the contributions, even without a Confluence login. For this I want to adapt the AnonymUser. But this is not possible.  
Support has referred me to the community.


author: Alex Koxaras _Relational_
body: Why is not possible to activate the anonymous user?


author: Testuser
body: When I go to the link <https://ms4y.atlassian.net> with the other browser, a login window appears. So the AnonymUser is not enabled for reading.  
I don't have the point mentioned in the post from 30.10.2022 in the free account of Confluence.  
If you want, I can change my password to a temporary one or I can invite the person or my TestUser, which I have created in Confluence in my area.


author: Alex Koxaras _Relational_
body: Did you enable anonymous access from the global permissions? <https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/set-up-public-access/>

After doing that, you have to go to the specific space and grant permissions also to the anonymous users. <https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/make-a-space-public/>


author: Testuser
body: Thanks for the links  
But I can't set it up like it says on the link.  
I can create a login so that you can see for yourself that it doesn't work.


author: Testuser
body: I would be really happy if this could work with the anonymous user who has read rights to all pages/areas. Otherwise, unfortunately, Confluence is useless for me.  
If someone would like to take a closer look at the issue, I would be happy to give them access to it.


author: Testuser
body: It's a pity that there is no more reply.  
I didn't manage to give the anonymous user the rights to enable all pages in read mode.  
Unfortunately, COnfluence is of no use to me.


author: Testuser
body: l?schen/delete


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