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"What’s New in Confluence..." popup blank in FF

Sam Hall

For somereason I can't figure out, the "What’s New in Confluence..." popup tries to request HTTP version of the page which then redirects to HTTPS. By default Firefox blocks the HTTP request since our wiki is using SSL, so the user isn't seeing the content at all. This is happening in our environment both with version 5.1.5 and 5.2.5. Is there something I'm doing wrong?

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Sam Hall

It works, thanks for putting me on the right track Kai. Just did a global replace in help-paths.properties file for "=" with "=confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF53/" and then customised the whats new entries to:

help.whats.new.iframe.link=www.atlassian.com/en/software/confluence/whats-new-iframe/53
help.whats.new.full.link=www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/whats-new.jsp

E.g. the top of my help-paths.properties file looks like this (note I decided to skip straight to confluence.atlassian.com and avoid docs.atlassian.com altogether)...

help.prefix=https://{1}

## Page Names
help.creating.content=confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF53/Creating+Content
help.content.report.table.macro=confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF53/Content+Report+Table+Macro
...

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Sam Hall

So I found the documentation regarding extracting help-paths.properties into confluence/WEB-INF/classes/ in order to amend the help documentation path. This allows me to specify:

help.prefix=https://docs.atlassian.com/confluence/docs-{0}/{1}

Unfortunatly, the atlassian hosted "What's New" page redirects to an http URL that still causes errors...

https://docs.atlassian.com/confluence/docs-52/whatsnew/iframe

redirects to...

http://www.atlassian.com/en/software/confluence/whats-new-iframe/52

which redirects to the SSL version...

https://www.atlassian.com/en/software/confluence/whats-new-iframe/52

This is mental and very frustraiting!

Update: I've logged a bug report for this here so I can close this question and stopped getting spammed by the "Open question reminder"... https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-31065

Kai Gottschalk

Just a short comment/hint from our side, how we solved this annoying challenge quite easy - and not yet documented:

1.) Create new/empty file "help-paths.properties" in directory .../WEB-INF/classes/ (!)

2.) Enter following content in the file:

help.prefix=https://docs.atlassian.com/confluence/docs-53/whatsnew/iframe?e=Y2FybG8uaG9oZW5icmlua0B4aW5nLmNvbQ==&od=false&a=true
help.whats.new.iframe.link=whatsnew

3.) Save file

4.) Restart Confluence

Done! This helps a lot as you do not have to search and extract within/from the JAR-file (the file "help-paths.properties" was not present in our installation.

Hope this helps you!

Cheers
Kai

Sam Hall

I'll try this, but I'm concerned that this will break all other "Help" links throughout the system.

Sam Hall

I've updated my question because I noticed I had the wrong redirected URLs (must have failed to copy/paste correctly). The problem is it redirects to http://www.atlassian.com... before finally redirecting to https://www.atlassian.com...

I've tried a variation of your workaround to land directly on the final destination page, and now "What's New" works perfectly, however any other links to Confluence Help are broken.

You've given me an idea though, perhaps I could set the prefix to simply "https://" and then put the full path including the domain in for every entry in the packaged help-paths.properties file.

Sam Hall

help.whats.new.iframe.link=www.atlassian.com/en/software/confluence/whats-new-iframe/53
help.whats.new.full.link=www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/whats-new.jsp

E.g. the top of my help-paths.properties file looks like this (note I decided to skip straight to confluence.atlassian.com and avoid docs.atlassian.com altogether)...

help.prefix=https://{1}

## Page Names
help.creating.content=confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF53/Creating+Content
help.content.report.table.macro=confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF53/Content+Report+Table+Macro
...

Sam Hall

One caveat I've noticed is that it breaks the "Online Help" link, which changes to https://getting+help+and+support. There doesn't seem to be an entry for this page anywhere in help-paths.properties. I tried to track down what generates the link in the vm templates and hit a reference to aui.page.header.soy which I imagine must be in a jar file somewhere. I think I'll just hack it with some javascript.

Sam Hall

A grep on the source revealed that I needed to add this entry too...

urlsuffix.help.page=confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF53/getting+help+and+support

Kai Gottschalk

Hi Sam,

congrats to this teamwork. With your documented information we were able to fix both challenges.

To say this quite clear: Although being a huge atlassian fan, I'd like to point out that this mixed-content-problem took us more than two mandays (!) just because of one (!) missing "s" in the link (http instead of https). This makes me think twice considering further updates. Shame on this broken process!

Cheers
Kai

AKASH BHARDWAJ2

I have placed this Help-paths.properties file under WEB-INF/CLASSES folder but still when my site is up i am not able to see anything. I have inspected the frame and it shows Url is pointing to null.

So any help....

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