URL encoding issue

[MS Anjum]

Hello there,

We have recently purchased and deployed Confluence 7.6.0 on our server. The main issue I am facing at the moment is that all those confluence pages that are either auto-generated while creating a new space or manually created, and contain a space in their names are not being accessed.

When I create a page with some spaces in its name, and click the Publish button. I receive some error message, but the page is created at backend and shown under the space tree. The page URL contains + for each space, and when I click the link to access the page, I get the 404 error message though the page exists.

If I manually replace the + in the URL with %20, the page gets accessible. Can you help as how can I fix this URL encoding issue in our page URLs, so that we don't need to manually edit them for accessing?

A prompt response on this would be highly appreciated.

Salman

[Pavel Potcheptsov · Accepted solution]

What's your web server?

Nginx, Apache or you have default setup with Confluence handling connections on port 8090?

In case of IIS see here: https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/urls-that-containing-a-plus-symbol-can-t-be-displayed-370704515.html

[MS Anjum]

Thanks Pavel for sharing the related link. It worked for us.

On second thought, won't you think allowing double escaping on IIS server is a big security hazard for the documentation site?