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Configuring the Server Base URL

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The Server Base URL is the URL via which users access Confluence. The base URL must be set to the same URL by which browsers will be viewing your Confluence site.

Confluence will automatically detect the base URL during setup, but you may need to set it manually if your site's URL changes or if you set up Confluence from a different URL to the one that will be used to access it publicly.

You need to have System Administrator permissions in order to perform this function.

To configure the Server Base URL,

  1. In Confluence, open the 'Browse' menu and select 'Confluence Admin'. The 'Administration Console' will open.
  2. Click 'General Configuration' in the left-hand panel.
  3. Click the 'Edit' button next to 'Site Configuration'.
  4. Enter the new URL in the 'Server Base URL' text box.
  5. 'Save' your changes.
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If you configure a different base URL or if visitors use some other URL to access Confluence, it is possible that you may encounter errors while viewing some pages.

Example

If Confluence is installed to run in a non-root context path, the server base URL should include the context path. For example, if Confluence is running at http://www.foobar.com/confluence, the server base URL will be http://www.foobar.com/confluence.

RELATED TOPICS
Configuring the Server Base URL
Configuring the Site Homepage
Configuring the Site Support Address
Customising Default Space Content
Editing the Global Logo
Editing the Site Title
Editing the Site Welcome Message
Showing Link Icons
View Space Goes to Browse Space

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  1. Apr 27, 2007

    Mark says:

    Server Base URL is problematic if you want to run your (same) wiki instance from...

    Server Base URL is problematic if you want to run your (same) wiki instance from multiple subdomains.

    Say I create four spaces:  one, two, three, four

    I want to run http://one.foobar.com/   two.foobar.com  three.foobar.com  four.foobar.com, and as each group logs in they see their space.

    This won't work right?

    Is there a workaround for this? 

    Can the base URL be set according to the server.xml file, where you can enter multiple hosts? 

    1. May 07, 2007

      David Chui says:

      Hi Mark, To confirm, Confluence does not support such configuration as discusse...

      Hi Mark,

      To confirm, Confluence does not support such configuration as discussed here.

      Unfortunately, there is no workaround. Also, each instance of Confluence is limited to one base URL.

      Regards,
      David

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