JSD and Confluence

Chad Corkrum_w0i9h1

I've got a question about setup, I'd like a single public URL for both JSD and Confluence and when I browse to support.example.com Confluence would be displayed and I'd use the Refined theme to create a home page and I'd like Confluence to be public, you don't have to log into it.

Now for JSD I want it to be available at support.example.com/jira and maybe have links in the knowledge base home page to goto JSD and log in and create a ticket or better yet use an anonymous access plug-in and go right to ticket creation.

My question is can I do that with Confluence where it owns support.example.com and JSD is a sub directory? and can Confluence be made public?

Andrew Laden

A few ways that you might be able to accomplish this

If you front your jira and confluence instance with a proxy like nginx, then you should be able to do this.

You have to be a little careful in the config, as you want to make sure that the urls staring the /jira get handled by the proxy first before falling back to the wildcard at the top level.

You can also do things with redirects in nginx to just redirect to your jira server

Another "trick" would be to create a space in confluence called "jira" and have the home page of that space be a form that can be used to create jira tickets. There are a few confluence add-ons that can do this for you. (I dont use any so I cant recommend any.)