Confluence : the page I shared shows "404 Oops, you've found a dead link."

[adrien.lancelot]

Hi,

I created a page in Confluence, then shared it to two of my colleagues, who do not have access to the Space the page is included in. When they click the link they received by email and in their Confluence space, they get a 404 error with the message "Oops, you've found a dead link".

Do I have to share the whole space with them so that they can access this single page?

I am new to Confluence, so this may be my fault but I don't understand what I'm doing wrong here.

[Sandy Johnson · Accepted solution]

If it is really important that they not see other pages, you could grant them access to the space, then restrict their access to every page except the one you want them to see

[adrien.lancelot]

Ok will do that.

I was under the impression that it was possible to share a page to someone who wasn't invited in the space, since it wasn't written on the online help here

I will correct this then.

Thanks! 

[Thomas Schlegel]

But be careful, @adrien.lancelot. This approach might result in a permission and restriction hell that is hard to handle.

On every single page creation in your space, you have to think about restrictions. On every single one and every user of your space has to do this. I wouldn't do that and since you wrote, that you are new to Confluence, I haven't suggested that.

It is very likely, someone is forgetting this and informations are published that shouldn't be published...

[Moses Thomas]

@adrien.lancelot

Please check with your confluence account. whether the page really  exist  and verify that  they have access  to the space which  you are sharing this page.

[Thomas Schlegel]

Hi Adrien,

you have to give your colleagues permissions to view the page, that means, you have to give them at least view permissions on the space, the page is in.

You can't give access to a single page without giving access to the space.