How to share my wiki with people who dont have an account

[Mila Vera]

I want to use confluence for my wiki, but I dont want to pay for 100+ accounts. Is there a way to access a confluence wiki without having an account?

[Deleted user]

Hi @Mila Vera,

In addition to the way @Alex suggested, I think it could be useful for you to take a look at Scroll Viewport - an app built by my team at K15t. With it, you can publish your relevant Confluence spaces to a nice looking external website and, amongst other things, set up authentication for it.

As of today, we already provide tokens/passwords as a way of authentication. Support for SAML is coming soon, too (it's in beta right now - if you want try it out, let me know). Meaning, if the users you want to share your content with have accounts in an identity provider of yours, they'll be able to use their single-sign-on to access the content - without requiring a Confluence account, of course.

If you have any questions about Scroll Viewport, let me know - or book an onboarding session with our team if you're interested in learning more about it.

Hope this helps! :)

Cheers,
Sven

[Alex]

Hi @Mila Vera and welcome to the community!

You can enable anonymous access on the cloud starting on the standard version. Therefore, you won't need all users to have a confluence account to read content from your wiki site.

Take a look at Set up public access for more details.

I hope it helps. If this answer helps solve the problem, please come back and mark this answer as solved to help other community members with the same challenge. If not, you are welcome to share your solution as well.

Cheers,

Alex

[Mila Vera]

@Alex from what I understand ANYONE that happens to stumble upon our page can read it if it set up for public access, therefor keeping any sort of sensitive information in our wiki would be out of the question. Am I right?

Is there a way to make a permission to have it set up that only those with the link can access it?

[Alex]

Hi @Mila Vera 

You are right, and I don't think confluence will provide this sort of permission based on having access to a specific link. However, if you are on a premium plan, there is the IP allowlist permission where one can Specify IP addresses for product access at the organization level.

Cheers,

Alex

[Conrado Maggi]

You have two options to make a  public wiki with confluence: One is to publish your docs online and make it available to external users or anonymous. The caveat here that is accessible to anyone with the link. Although I don't think they will ever find it in google.

Alternatively, you can use an app like:

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1227534/deskbase-on-brand-websites-for-confluence

That let you publish your confluence site as a public knowledge base website. Fully CSS customizable. It also supports magic link login, for example: You can allow everyone with @Example.com domain to login via email confirmation.