Site homepage settings, useless now ?

Question

Hi,

I've discovered a cookie is set to remember the latest page viewed on the Confluence Home (whatever the browser can be).

So now, when I go directly on my home page <xxx>.atlassian.net, the "Site Homepage" I defined in the "Further Configuration" option is totally useless. In this admin page I see: "Allows you to configure the site home page to which users will be directed when they log in." so now that's wrong, they go to the Confluence Home either to the homepage I defined or to the Activity one or to the Spaces one. That's not what I want (and this does not correspond what's described), specially for anonymous users, I want them all, registered users or not, to go to the home space I configured as that was before.

Is this a bug or a feature ?

AnnWorley · Answer

Thanks for circling back, Bruno. For anyone seeeing this later, there are two bugs to be aware of:

Some users with access to only Confluence are not being redirected to Confluence

Customers who had opt-out from New Confluence Look and Feel have the 'Confluence' button redirecting to a non-existing page due to an extra 'all-updates' on the URL

Bruno Miretti · Answer

FYI a bug has been opened, see:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Site-Homepage-setting-has-no-effect-for-normal-user/qaq-p/612963