Some buttons and links in Confluence point to bogus URIs

Chris Leduc

Good morning!

We've been using Confluence for a while, but since it's been reinstalled, there is a problem that appears for some but not all of the links and buttons in Confluence.

They point to things such as...

http://pages/editpage.action?pageId=786435

http://admin/console.action

Essentially in the source, just to take a random example of the file http://confluence.swiss-va.com/display/R/Home

<li class="normal ajs-menu-item">
        <a id="browse-menu-link" class="browse trigger ajs-menu-title" href="#"><span><span>Browse</span></span></a>         <div class="assistive ajs-drop-down">
                        <ul  id="browse-menu-link-leading"                 class="section-leading first">
                                        <li>
    
        
    
    <a  id="space-pages-link" href="//pages/listpages.action?key=R"  class=""   title="Browse pages in the Relaunch 2013 space">
                   <span>Pages</span></a>        </li>
                                        <li>
    
        
    
    <a  id="space-blogposts-link" href="//pages/viewrecentblogposts.action?key=R"  class=""   title="Browse blogs in the Relaunch 2013 space">
                   <span>Blog</span></a>        </li>
                                        <li>
    
        
    
    <a  id="space-labels-link" href="//labels/listlabels-heatmap.action?key=R"  class=""   title="Browse labels in the Relaunch 2013 space">
                   <span>Labels</span></a>        </li>
                                        <li>
    
        
    
    <a  id="space-attachments-link" href="//spaces/listattachmentsforspace.action?key=R"  class=""   title="Browse attachments in the Relaunch 2013 space">
                   <span>Attachments</span></a>        </li>
                                        <li>
    
        
    
    <a  id="space-mail-link" href="//mail/archive/viewmailarchive.action?key=R"  class=""   title="Browse mail in the Relaunch 2013 space">
                   <span>Mail</span></a>        </li>
                                        <li>

Manually prepending the server name between http:// and the rest obviously works fine, but we'd rather do without.

If you have any ideas about what's causing this, let me know what you need to diagnose. I'll do my best!

Thanks for your help and hints!

Chris

Andrew Frayling

Hi Chris,

THe thing that immediately springs to mind is the base URL (http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Configuring+the+Server+Base+URL) not being set in Browse -> Confluence Admin -> General Configuration

It's unlikely that the base URL would have been wiped in the config, but that's where I'd start.

Hope that helps?

Andrew.