space key in page URL

[Jeanne Howe]

W have some pages in our Confluence instance that do not have the space key in the page URL. As a result, some of the Confluence macros can not be used with these pages. 

What causes a page NOT to have the space key as part of the URL?

Example:

regular page url - https://(baseURL)/display/CON/C15+2015+Delivery

other page url - https://(baseurl)/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=63866104

[AnnWorley · Accepted solution]

Hi JT,

That is caused by having special characters in the page title. There is more information in this article:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFKB/Confluence+Page+URL%27s+Contain+pageId+Instead+of+The+Page+Title

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Page titles without special characters will create a URL like: http://localhost:8080/display/support/Page+Title

Adding any special characters to the title will cause the pageId to be used instead: http://localhost:8080/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1900546

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Thanks,

Ann

[Xing Guo]

Hi Ann,

Thanks for your help,

If I want to get spaceKey and title when URL
like: xxxxxxxxxx/display/"spaceKey"/"title"

Can I usually substring this URL to get them safely?