Links in Confluence Workbox Show Wrong URL
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Symptoms
Links in Workbox notifications do not show the current Base URL.
The following images demonstrate this behavior, the open and reply links show different URLs:
Cause
The Confluence Base URL was recently changed, but the old Base URL is used for absolute links until Confluence is restarted. The Open link in Workbox and the link to Confluence Pages in Workbox are absolute links, while most other links in Confluence are relative to the url used to access Confluence.
Workaround
Restart Confluence.
Resolution
- There is an improvement request to change how links are generated in the Workbox CONFSERVER-34824 - Links in Workbox Notifications Not Consistent and Not Updated after Changing Base URL