redirect from old confluence server URLs

[Hamish Moffatt]

I have migrated my self-hosted Confluence Server to Confluence Cloud.

I would like the old URLs to work in case people have saved bookmarks, emails and so on. Does anyone have some redirect rules that would work?

I have not been able to find a pattern. Some of the URLs I have are

/confluence/dashboard.action

/confluence/display/WA/4P12.01

(WA is a space, 4P12.01 is a page). On Cloud the pages all seem to have a page number in them which is not in the Server URL.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

No, I'm afraid Cloud has this stupid scheme where it inserts the id into the url, making a nonsense of the "page name is the easy way to build a url" idea.

To do what you're trying to do, you'd need to build an indexing system, something that can work out what the id is and build the new url to be redirected to.

[Hamish Moffatt]

Thanks. What I ended up with is redirecting some links to the search page, and the rest to the Confluence home. That will be good enough.

For Apache:

RedirectMatch /confluence/display/.*/(.*)$ https://<site>.atlassian.net/wiki/search?text=$1
RedirectMatch /confluence/(.*)$ https://<site>.atlassian.net/wiki/

Fortunately the Jira URLs are easier to redirect.

[MS]

As answered in another question, Confluence Cloud will automatically redirect pages with names to pages with IDs.  See the following answer: 

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Post-migration-to-the-cloud-Redirection/qaq-p/1118935

Note: I only just found the answer and I do not know anything about the nature or performance of these redirects.