Configuring URL Encoding on Tomcat Application Server
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Application servers may have different settings for character encodings. We strongly recommend UTF-8 where possible.
By default, Tomcat uses ISO-8859-1 character encoding when decoding URLs received from a browser. This can cause problems when Confluence's encoding is UTF-8, and you are using international characters in the names of attachments or pages.
To configure the URL encoding in Tomcat:
Edit
conf/server.xml
and find the line where theCoyote HTTP Connector
is defined. It will look something like this, possibly with more parameters:<Connector port="8090"/>
Add a
URIEncoding="UTF-8"
property to the connector:<Connector port="8090" URIEncoding="UTF-8"/>
- Restart Tomcat
If you are using mod_jk
You should apply the same URIEncoding parameter as above to the AJP connector if you are using mod_jk, and add the following option to your Apache mod_jk configuration:
<Connector port="8009" protocol="AJP/1.3" URIEncoding="UTF-8"/>
JkOptions +ForwardURICompatUnparsed
More information using Apache with Tomcat
For comprehensive examples of how to use Tomcat and Apache with Confluence, see Running Confluence behind Apache.
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