How to make (sub-) pages visible in public space?
Asked by Gabriel K?rner:

Hi,

we are working with external partners whom we want to provide documentation which is organized in a space with multiple pages.

Our goal is to enable the partner to read the space and all pages on it with sharing only the space link and that they can navigate through all pages. The space shall be visible wether the partner has a confluence account or not.

We struggle to make the whole space with it's subsides visible at once for partners.

First we enabled public links for the space.

Afterwards we allowed anonymous users to view all in the space setting.

As this did not work we started to allow public links for the pages itself. Still the pages are not shown when using the link for the space.

Then we tried it without enabling viewing-rights for anonymous users. Still not working as expected.

Loooking forward to your replies.


Answers:
author: Kristian Klima
body: Hi [@Gabriel K?rner](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5520797)

Allowing anonymous access to your space means that anyone can view it. There's no need to have public links enabled for individual pages.

Like [this](https://d-art-s.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DT/overview) (that's my personal space).

Not sure what's happening on your site (perhaps page restrictions?)

If you want to hide the Confluence space furniture, improve/customize the look and feel, improve search, and use your/your client domain, I recommend [Scroll Viewport](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1211636/scroll-viewport-for-confluence?tab=overview&hosting=cloud) by K15t.

The cool thing is that you can build a public documentation center for you client with the URL like docs.yourclientname.com. It can look like [this](https://docs.emplifi.io/%20) (the site I built for Emplifi) and you can also keep your actual Confluence space private. It will also help you organize your workflow as you will be able to choose the time when you want to push your confluence content to your site.

You can build as many sites for as many clients as you want.

With Viewport you can literally have your cake and eat it.

(there are other options on the Marketplace, such as [Spacecraft](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1230544/spacecraft-theme-for-confluence-cloud-color-your-space?tab=overview&hosting=cloud) by Seibert Media but they do depend on Confluence permissions).


author: Gabriel K?rner
body: Thanks for your suggestions. We went on by making the space public.


author: Laura Campbell _Seibert Media_
body: Hi [@Gabriel K?rner](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/5520797) and welcome to Community.

First off, public links are not what you are looking for. Public links allow you to share a specific link for a specific page. They are ideal when you want to share one page in a Confluence space that is not open to anonymous users. They function with a specific url for each page, which is independent from any other content.

Anonymous access for the space is the way to go, **with** enabling viewing rights for anonymous users (otherwise they can't see anything). Make sure you have anonymous access enabled at the site level and at the space level. Check out this documentation for help <https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/make-a-space-public/>

If any of the pages in the space have restricted access (the lock on the top of the page), anonymous users will not be able to see those pages. Perhaps some of your users have locked down their pages while they were working on them? If a parent page is locked, that prevent users from seeing the child pages as well.

![Screenshot 2024-06-14 at 10.24.46.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/329868i91F09187A523C3AB/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screenshot 2024-06-14 at 10.24.46.png")


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