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Set up and manage public links
Public links allow teams to share individual Confluence pages with people outside of Confluence without giving them access to Confluence. This could be useful for sharing information to the public, like customer FAQs, release notes, shareholder letters, and more.
As an admin, you’ll find guidance on this page for how to set up and manage public links on your site, so that the right content can be shared publicly by the right people.
For details on how public links work, go to How secure are public links?
If you’re looking for help on how to actually share individual pages, go to Share content externally with public links.
Public links are only available on Confluence’s paid plans.
What are the default settings for public links?
In Global permissions, the toggle controlling whether the site should allow the use of public links is set to Allow by default.
In Space permissions, the toggle controlling whether the space should allow the use of public links is also set to Allow by default.
Related, in Default space permissions, the setting that controls whether any new space created should allow the use of public links is set to Allow by default.
At the page level, actual public links are off by default.
For more on public links default settings, go to How secure are public links?
Allow public links on your site
Only organization or product admins can change this setting.
By default, your site will allow public links.
To allow public links on Confluence:
Select the gear icon at the top-right of the navigation to go to product settings.
Select Global permissions in the side navigation.
Select the Public links tab.
Toggle on Allow public links on this site.
“Allowing” public links on Confluence makes them available for use. It doesn’t make anything public on its own. With public links allowed, anyone who has access to a page can turn on and share that page’s public link with anyone on the internet.
To stop allowing public links on Confluence:
Select the gear icon at the top-right of the navigation to go to product settings.
Select Global permissions in the side navigation.
Select the Public links tab.
Toggle off Allow public links on this site.
All active public links on your site will be turned off and have to be manually turned back on.
An organization-level control in Atlassian Admin is coming soon.
Allow public links in your space
Space admins can change this setting, as well as organization and product admins.
By default, all spaces allow public links.
To allow public links in a space:
Go to the space.
Select Space settings in the sidebar.
Select Public links under Space permissions.
Toggle on Allow public links in this space.
Similarly to the site-level control, “allowing” public links in space makes them available for use. It doesn’t make anything public on its own.
To stop allowing public links in a space:
Go to the space.
Select Space settings in the sidebar.
Select Public links under Space permissions.
Toggle off Allow public links in this space.
All active public links in the space site will be turned off and have to be manually turned back on.
For guidance on how to turn public links on at the page-level, go to Share content externally with public links.
Prevent new spaces created from allowing public links
By default, all new spaces created will allow the use of public links in them.
To prevent new spaces created from allowing public links:
Select the gear icon at the top-right of the navigation to go to product settings.
Select Space permissions.
In the Public Links section, toggle off Allow public links in all new spaces.
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