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  1. Confluence Data Center
  2. CONFSERVER-27885

Setting no homepage for a Confluence will result in inability to create pages

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      NOTE: This bug report is for Confluence Server. Using Confluence Cloud? See the corresponding bug report.

      Steps to reproduce:
      • Go to a Confluence space admin.
      • Set an empty homepage for the space.
      • Try to create a page in that space and it will result in a stack trace.
      java.lang.NullPointerException
      at
      com.atlassian.confluence.pages.actions.AbstractCreatePageAction.getFromPage(AbstractCreatePageAction.java:274)
      Stack Trace:[hide]
      java.lang.NullPointerException
      at com.atlassian.confluence.pages.actions.AbstractCreatePageAction.getFromPage(AbstractCreatePageAction.java:274)
      at com.atlassian.confluence.pages.actions.CreatePageAction.populateParentPageTitleField(CreatePageAction.java:187)
      at com.atlassian.confluence.pages.actions.CreatePageAction.doDefault(CreatePageAction.java:168)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
      at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
      at com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionInvocation.invokeAction(DefaultActionInvocation.java:302)
      at com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionInvocation.invoke(DefaultActionInvocation.java:170)
      

      There should be a more meaningful error message or make it impossible to set an empty page as the homepage for a space.

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              nbhawnani Niraj Bhawnani
              romar Abdulrazaq Mohammed Ali Omar (Inactive)
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