Anonymous user access turned on, but space is not public

[Jason Green]

I enabled anonymous access to a Confluence space, but when I try to access the space from a private chrome browser I see the image attached - Confluence login.

In Confluence cloud, latest version as of 4-18-25.

[Tomislav Tobijas]

Hi @Jason Green ,

Anonymous access should be enabled on two levels - global and space level > see the official documentation here.

Can you check if this is enabled as described in the docs?
If everything is enabled properly, users should be able to access space content if it's not restricted.

Alternatively, you could use Confluence public links to share only specific pages and not all content in the space.

Cheers,
Tobi

[Jason Green]

Yes, I enabled anon access at the global level, thanks. It was not enabled originally. I can now access the space as a public, anon user. However, I cannot get Google to crawl the site... do you know why? I am trying to feed the contents of the site (using Google search API) into another program....

[Tomislav Tobijas]

@Jason Green I'm not so much into combining Confluence with search engines such as Google.

Anyway, I know for one option within "Security and privacy" which you might want to check, and that is "Hide external links from search engine". I'm not sure if that's selected by default or not.

So, if you would navigate to Confluence administration > Security configuration, check the checkbox mentioned above.