Platform notice: Server and Data Center only. This article only applies to Atlassian products on the Server and Data Center platforms.

Support for Server* products ended on February 15th 2024. If you are running a Server product, you can visit the Atlassian Server end of support announcement to review your migration options.

*Except Fisheye and Crucible

Problem

Relative links do not work as described in the Confluence link syntax. Seeing the following URL pattern when hover to the "edit" tab in a page:

[http://pages/editpage.action?pageId=]<the pageID>

Note that the <domainURL> is missing compare to the valid/actual URL:

http://<domainURL>/pages/editpage.action?pageId=<the pageID>

Cause

The context path is specified in an invalid format. To access Confluence instance without any context path, the following configuration is used in the server.xml or confluence.xml for a .war file:

<Context path="" docBase="../confluence" debug="0" reloadable="false">

Adding a slash to the context path will cause this incorrect link behaviour:

<Context path="/" docBase="../confluence" debug="0" reloadable="false">

Solution

Remove the additional slash defined in the server.xml file:

 <Context path="" docBase="../confluence" debug="0" reloadable="false">