Setting a home page for an implementation's root URL?
Asked by Mike_Schinkel:

One of the things I find lacking in Confluence is the ability to set a common home page for an organization/implementation of confluence.  

IOW, an intranet home page.

Sure we can create a space for that, but that is not discoverable like a home page would be. Ideally if someone went to ++ourdomain.atlassian.net++ they would get a site's home page, and from that page could be links to ++/jira/your-work++

I think this is a feature request. Maybe a solution would be to create a HOME page and then a configuration that allows us to assign that space to the root domain?  

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Answers:
author: Dan Winkler
body: [@Mike_Schinkel](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3466473) You're welcome. Also saw this just a few minutes ago, which looks like the official documentation and provides more detail:

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/configuring-the-site-homepage-724765517.html>


author: Mike_Schinkel
body: [@Dan Winkler](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/228195) That is perfect. Many thanks!


author: Dan Winkler
body: [@Mike_Schinkel](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3466473) I don't have any idea if this is what you're looking for, and I've never actually used it. I just stumbled across this setting the other day so it was near the top of my mind and when I saw your question I thought that maybe this solution would fit.

I'm a Confluence Admin for our company.

-I go to this location:

[https://\<mycompany'sname\>.atlassian.net/wiki/discover/all-updates](https://brytercx.atlassian.net/wiki/discover/all-updates)

-Click **Further Configuration** on the left side.

-Click **Edit**. Part of the screen that appears includes this:

![site-home.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/74195i3BCABD9933305307/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "site-home.png")-Then, I'd make a selection in the **Site Homepage** dropdown. Like I said, I haven't done it yet, just thought about it.

Good luck, hope this helps.


author: Mike_Schinkel
body: \> Hmm...thought you could do it in the Further Configuration - Site Homepage part of Confluence but it sure seems like you can only connect to Spaces.  

I was unaware of this, and it sounds like it might meet my needs.  

Would you (or someone else) mind sharing a screen shot in the admin showing how to configure this, and including the URL path in the admin in which is to located?  

Thank you in advance.


author: Mike_Schinkel
body: \> Just curious - why do you think a Space would be less discoverable than a page?  

I think my question must have been unclear.  

I am not so much asking for a page vs. a space, I was asking for the home page to appear at the root URL, e.g. at:  

<https://ourdomain.atlassian.net/>  

BTW, I would actually prefer to have an entire space pinned to the root URL vs. a single page. The point of the request is to have an intranet home page at the root URL.  

Also, the discoverability I speak of is empowered specifically by the home page/space being at the root URL, vs. having to know what to search because it is hard to find some things on Confluence, especially for a large installation of Confluence, and having a curated home page would be helpful to new users.


author: Mike_Schinkel
body: Hi Dan,

Thank you for replying to my question.

Trying to reply but for the browser keeps having a Javascript error when I click reply.


author: Dan Winkler
body: [@Mike_Schinkel](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/3466473) Hmm...thought you could do it in the Further Configuration - Site Homepage part of Confluence but it sure seems like you can only connect to Spaces. Just curious - why do you think a Space would be less discoverable than a page?


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