Relative links are broken due to context path defined as forward slash
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*Except Fisheye and Crucible
Problem
Relative links do not work as described in the Confluence link syntax. Seeing the following URL pattern when hover to the "edit" tab in a page:
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[http://pages/editpage.action?pageId=]<the pageID>
Note that the <domainURL> is missing compare to the valid/actual URL:
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http://<domainURL>/pages/editpage.action?pageId=<the pageID>
Cause
The context path is specified in an invalid format. To access Confluence instance without any context path, the following configuration is used in the server.xml or confluence.xml for a .war file:
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<Context path="" docBase="../confluence" debug="0" reloadable="false">
Adding a slash to the context path will cause this incorrect link behaviour:
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<Context path="/" docBase="../confluence" debug="0" reloadable="false">
Solution
Remove the additional slash defined in the server.xml file:
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