Make a Confluence space public without anonymous access

You can make a Confluence space public without turning on anonymous access. Capable Sites reads the space with the app's own access and publishes a copy as a separate website. Create a site with that space, leave Access on Public, then promote it. Visitors need no Atlassian account, and your Confluence site stays private.

#Before you start

#Steps

1. In the space, add the label capable-sites-exclude to every page that must stay private, including its child pages.

2. Open Capable, choose Sites, then Create site.

3. On Overview, enter the site name and check the web address. Select Continue.

4. On Scope, add the space and select its house icon to make it the home space. Select Continue.

5. On Theme, pick a palette and add your logo. Select Continue.

6. On Access, leave Public selected. Select Continue.

7. On Create, tick Publish it right away and select Create and publish.

8. When the build finishes, check the staging preview, then select Promote and Promote to production.

#What happens next

The space is on the web at the site's address, with a sitemap and a robots.txt that welcome search engines. Nothing changes in Confluence: anonymous access stays off, and anyone who opens the space in Confluence still has to sign in. Edits reach the public site only when you run Update and Promote.

#A few things that catch people out

• Links inside your pages to Confluence pages that are not on the site still point at Confluence. See Links to some Confluence pages send visitors to an Atlassian login screen.

• Blog posts, whiteboards, databases and comments are never published. See What becomes a page.

• To make the space visible to some people only, choose a different Access mode. See Securing a published site.

#Related

Public on the web. Private in Confluence.