[CONFSERVER-11285] Page names with special characters to generate regular URL - Create and track feature requests for Atlassian products.

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Type: Suggestion
Status: Future Consideration (View Workflow)
Resolution: Unresolved
Fix Version/s: None
Component/s: Editor - Page / Comment Editor
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System Date Tuesday, 01 Apr 2008
System Time 14:40:17
System Favourite Colour Claret
Java Version 1.5.0_11
Java Vendor Sun Microsystems Inc.
JVM Version 1.0
JVM Vendor Sun Microsystems Inc.
JVM Implementation Version 1.5.0_11-b03
Java Runtime Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition
Java VM Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM
User Name tomcat4
User Timezone Israel
Operating System Linux 2.4.21-27.0.2.EL
OS Architecture i386
Filesystem Encoding UTF-8

Java VM Memory Statistics
Total Memory 1199 MB
Free Memory 992 MB
Used Memory 207 MB
Memory Graph
[Used Memory (17 %)] [Free Memory (83 %)]
83 % Free

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Database Dialect com.atlassian.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect
Database Connection URL jdbc:mysql://localhost/confluence?autoReconnect=true
Database Driver Name com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
Database Driver Version 3.0
Application Server Apache Tomcat/5.0
Servlet Version 2.4
Confluence Home /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps/Wiki/wiki-old
Uptime 3 days, 22 hours, 21 minutes, 35 seconds
Confluence Version 2.3.1
Build Number 643

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System Information System Date Tuesday, 01 Apr 2008 System Time 14:40:17 System Favourite Colour Claret Java Version 1.5.0_11 Java Vendor Sun Microsystems Inc. JVM Version 1.0 JVM Vendor Sun Microsystems Inc. JVM Implementation Version 1.5.0_11-b03 Java Runtime Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition Java VM Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM User Name tomcat4 User Timezone Israel Operating System Linux 2.4.21-27.0.2.EL OS Architecture i386 Filesystem Encoding UTF-8 Java VM Memory Statistics Total Memory 1199 MB Free Memory 992 MB Used Memory 207 MB Memory Graph [Used Memory (17 %)] [Free Memory (83 %)] 83 % Free Runtime Information Database Dialect com.atlassian.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect Database Connection URL jdbc: mysql://localhost/confluence?autoReconnect=true Database Driver Name com.mysql.jdbc.Driver Database Driver Version 3.0 Application Server Apache Tomcat/5.0 Servlet Version 2.4 Confluence Home /var/lib/tomcat5/webapps/Wiki/wiki-old Uptime 3 days, 22 hours, 21 minutes, 35 seconds Confluence Version 2.3.1 Build Number 643

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

Hi,

When including different characters in page names - like %, &, +, etc., the URL is generated differently.

A usual URL (including the page name) looks like this: http://www.gigaspaces.com/wiki/display/GS6/Welcome+to+GigaSpaces

BUT if you add a character in the page name (for example, naming a page, C++), the URL would look like this: http://www.gigaspaces.com/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=36864161

which is less nice-looking to say the least, and also then all URLs in the wiki aren't standard.

Is it possible to change this?

If it's been fixed in a future version, I'll be glad to know.

Thanks,
Limor

Suggestion to avoid displaying the page ID in URL (Tested and verified in Confluence 6.5.1)

Avoid using these special characters + % ? / \ & ; in any page title/name
Avoid ending a page title/name with any special characters.
- Example of ending a page title/name with special characters:
- Example of ending a page title/name without special characters:

Atlassian Update – 19 April 2023

Hello Everyone,

I'm one of the Product Managers working on Confluence Data Center and wanted to thank you for your interest in this suggestion.

While we recognise the need for special characters in headings to result in regular URLs, this is not on our short-term roadmap.

If we work on delivering this in the future we will be sure to share any updates.

You can visit our public roadmap for updates on other exciting features coming to Confluence in upcoming releases.

Kind regards,

Jacqueline Bietz

Confluence Data Center

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Issue Links

causes

CONFSERVER-56160 Unable to find attached video clip when using the *multimedia macro* on the page when the *Page Title Name* contains any special character (:)

Gathering Impact

is duplicated by

CONFSERVER-10876 ampersand in page title

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CONFSERVER-36397 WebDav fails to publish pages with special characters like exclamation and question marks

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CONFSERVER-7530 Generating proper URLs even when you have &, " ", etc, as part of the title

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CONFSERVER-11978 Problem with including characters in wiki page names

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CONFSERVER-19224 Support special characters in URL

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is related to

CONFSERVER-16282 GeneralUtil::urlDecode should not return the undecoded url on exception

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CONFSERVER-27653 Accent characters in page title break linking

Closed

CONFSERVER-37318 Ability to Preset Confluence URL Pattern

Closed

relates to

CONFCLOUD-11285 Page names with special characters to generate regular URL

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Assignee:: Unassigned

Reporter:: Limor Maayan

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Watchers:: 324 Start watching this issue

Dates

Created:: 01/Apr/2008 11:44 AM

Updated:: 21 hours ago