How to link pages to twin in a new instance?

[Thomas]

Our mother company has introduced Confluence, so we moved all our spaces from the previous, local Confluence (https://small.confluence.instance) to the new central server (https://big.confluence.instance) via XML export/import.

We removed write access to the old instance, but we still have a lot of Confluence links in external documents/systems so users end up looking at the old pages. Is it possible to magic something (say in custom HTML) that refers to the new page? Like a big red ribbon on top of every page https://small.confluence.instance/some_page reading

"this confluence page has moved to a new server, please update your references. New link: https://big.confluence.instance/some_page"

?

I think the best I could do (with my almost non-existant scripting abilities) is to insert a custom header that links to the new space. But it would be really neat to have a link to the page within the space.

I do have Confluence admin access to the (old) instance, but no low level (SQL) access. So I can create global custom HTML or change space-local headers and sidebars.

[Davin Studer]

Did the space names/pages stay the same? Is there only one piece of the URL (the server name) that is different?

[Thomas]

The nternal structures do differ, for example space IDs and different user IDs.

If I look at a page (https://server/display/page_path) only the server part is different. But if I look via pages/viewpage.action?, the address is different.

[Davin Studer]

Hmm. If it was just server name that would not be that hard to create something that would give you a link to the new server. However, pages that have special characters in the title would not work as the content id's are different between the systems.