How do I redirect links in Confluence that point to an old base url, to a new one?

[Aram Ghanimian]

Instance details: Confluence running as a windows service on windows server 2008 R2. Using Microsoft SQL server 2008.

We ran into an issue with our previous baseurl in regards to Oauth. A suggestion we followed was to modify the baseurl to reflect the fully qualified name of the DNS entry we made a long time ago. IE. http://wiki => http://wiki.<companyname>.com. But now we run into problems with links that use http://wiki/<rest of the link>. When a user is logged in at http://wiki.<companyname>.com, and they follow the link with just http://wiki, they are prompted to log in again. There is no clear answer in the community about how is this remedied so far. 

[Aram Ghanimian · Accepted solution]

I was able to dig through answers.atlassian.com and found a question very similar to mine:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/JIRA-questions/Force-Jira-redirection-to-single-domain/qaq-p/367761#M197151

This put me on the right path. urlrewrite is a great tool if you know what your are doing. It helps if you know a web developer to assist with this. Here is the manual for urlrewrite:

http://cdn.rawgit.com/paultuckey/urlrewritefilter/master/src/doc/manual/4.0/index.html

For my Solution, follow my first link and review Jim Burch's answer.

[AnnWorley]

Thank you for following up, it really makes the community better when the Questions are solved.

[AnnWorley]

Please see this doc, I think it's just what you are looking for:

How Do I replace all 'hard' links to my old Base URL

[Aram Ghanimian]

Hi Ann,

Unfortunately, I am not using Linux in any of my instances. so the sed commands in the doc you suggested.

Option 2 looks close, and I am willing to try, but my question with that would become a DBA question in regards to reinjesting a txt file to a database. Do know anyone who has confirmed this works?

[Aram Ghanimian]

It would be best to have a top level redirect that takes the existing link and redirects it to the new base url.