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You can configure Confluence to send users to any of the space home pages on the site when they log in, rather than to the dashboard.

To configure the site-wide home page:

  1. Go to the 'Administration Console' and click 'General Configuration' in the left-hand panel.
  2. Click 'Edit' next to the 'Site Configuration' panel.
  3. Select a space from the 'Site Homepage' dropdown menu. When users log in, Confluence will open the home page of the space you choose here.
  4. Ensure that the 'View Space Goes to Browse Space' option is set to 'Off' if you want users to be sent to the space home page and not the space summary page.
  5. Click the 'Save' button at the bottom of the screen.

The spaces available to be set as your home page will depend on the access permissions of the space and the site.

  • The site home page must be accessible to the 'confluence-users' group.
  • If your site allows anonymous access, the site home page must also be accessible to anonymous users, that is, people who have not logged in to Confluence.

Notes

Related Topics
Page: Customising Default Space Content
Page: Editing the Site Welcome Message
Page: Editing the Site Title
Page: Configuring the Destination of View Space Links
Page: Configuring the Site Home Page
Page: Configuring the Server Base URL
Page: Editing the Global Logo

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  1. Oct 03, 2007

    Ron Ortiz

    Once the default Site Homepage has been changed, how can a user easily return to the home page?

    For example - once I set the default home page to something other than the dashboard, the dashboard still remains in the breadcrumb instead of displaying the newly configured site home page.

    1. Oct 17, 2007

      Sarah Maddox [Atlassian Technical Writer]

      Hi Ron

      Thank you for pointing this out. It's a tricky one. If we set the breadcrumb trail to include the re-configured home page, instead of the Dashboard, then the breadcrumb trail would look a bit odd. The Dashboard is at the 'top' of the hierarchy, because it sits above all spaces. But a space home page might result in a breadcrumb trail something like this:
      My Home Page > Space > My Home Page
      instead of:
      Dashboard > Space > My Home Page.

      The best solution would be a configurable Dashboard, so that the administrator can change the content of the Dashboard.

      If you're interested, you could take a look at JIRA issue CONF-208. You can also and vote for the issue, to help boost its priority.

      Cheers – Sarah

      1. Oct 07, 2011

        Anonymous

        I would like to suggest that having a customizable dashboard will not fix this issue for all use cases. It would be better to have the ability to redirect the dashboard to a page that we create in our own specific style, design, with pictures, attachments, videos – in short, a page that functions in the exact same way as a regular space homepage.

  2. Mar 25, 2009

    Anonymous

    Is there a way to configure more than one Site Configuration?  Say I want requests for Server Base Url http://foo.com to redirect to page foo, and I want requests for Server Base Url http://bar.com to redirect to page bar.  The form seems to only accomodate one Site Configuration setting.

    Thanks,

    bc

    1. Mar 25, 2009

      Azwandi Mohd Aris [Atlassian]

      Hi bc,

      We had this request previously, unfortunately, it was closed without fix due to complexity and small use case. You might want to learn more from the original improvement request here:

      Hope that helps!

      Cheers,
      Azwandi

  3. Jul 12, 2009

    Anonymous

    How does this feature interact with the user-specific "site homepage" setting?

    1. Jul 28, 2009

      Azwandi Mohd Aris [Atlassian]

      A user-specific homepage setting will have the priority over the site-specific homepage setting. Hence, when the user logs in to Confluence, he will be redirected to his user-specific homepage instead of the site-specific homepage. Hope that answers your question.

  4. Sep 17, 2009

    Imran Aziz

    Is there a way to set a users personal space as the site home page so that when any user logs in they are taken to their personal space ? One way will be to override the login action and then redirect it from there, or use redirect plug-in on a jump space to action this, but I was wondering if there was an easier way to go about it ?

  5. Nov 12, 2010

    Olivia Coffey

    Is it possible to set a tab other than Dashboard as the default Site Homepage? It seems as though only Spaces can be set as such.

  6. Jun 09, 2011

    Anonymous

    I have ten spaces created on my Confluence instance.  But only one space and Dashboard gets listed in the drop down list of the Site Home page of General configuration?  Can any one help me in bringing in the other spaces in the dropdown list? My confluence version is 3.3.

    1. Jul 18, 2011

      Anonymous

      Dear Anon -

      I had the same problem. It turns out I could only see the space keys for spaces which allowed access by my most inclusive security group - confluence-users. As soon as I added them as a group to a space and gave them viewing priviledges, voila - the space would show up in the drop down menu as a choice for the homepage.

      Hope this works for you.

      JM

  7. Nov 30, 2011

    Eduardo F. Sandino

    Hi Friends,

    I desire to know - How to configure a homepage per space has a home page ?

    thanks in ahead.!