Why can't I save pages that have links?

Question

I am in my personal space using the documentation theme, editing a page. After creating a link (to a page) when I try to save I get an error message: "An error occured while trying to save the requested page."

I really need to be able to create links in my documentation pages since that is how users will navigate things such as the FAQ. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Barnett · Answer

This issue came up a few times for me. The solution that has been working is simply clearing my browser's (firefox) cache.

Thanks Sean and Mick for your help!

Sean King1 · Answer

What version of confluence are you using? I tried to recreate the issue in 3.5.5 and links are created perfectly fine. Spacekeys are common practice and tilde's are part of the spacekey for personal spaces.

Barnett · Answer

I think I solved this issue. When using the bracket in Rich Text to link, for some reason the default markup is [~username:pagetitle]. So to get around this I just have to do [pagetitle] for each of my pages.

This is annoying. Is there a fix so that rich text "bracket" linking inserts the correct markup?