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Rebuild index from scratch

Added by Ivan Benko, last edited by Jeremy Largman on Mar 13, 2008  (view change)
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When you experience search problems within your Confluence instance, or can't find things after performing an upgrade, one simple solution that can help you to locate your content is to manually rebuild the index, as described in Content Index Administration.

If you are still experiencing problems after performing the above rebuild, the next step may be to remove the index and rebuild it from scratch, as described below. For example, the rebuild procedure described above may not restore a corrupted index file. You may want to ensure that all index files are re-created.

The Space Activity feature uses the index to store data. The procedure described below will delete the existing activity data.

To remove the index and rebuild it from scratch:

  1. Shut down your Confluence server.
  2. Remove the <confluence-home>/index directory.
  3. Restart server.
    A new index directory will be created upon restart of your application.
  4. Now perform the manual re-indexing of your site to build a brand new index from scratch.

If you still cannot find your content, please contact confluence support.

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Comments (4)

 

  1. Feb 20, 2008

    Anonymous says:

    Please include instructions for clustered installations. I assume all nodes must...

    Please include instructions for clustered installations. I assume all nodes must be shut down, and all index directories deleted from all nodes, and then each node restarted in sequence?

    1. Feb 20, 2008

      Anonymous says:

      Also, do I need to start the index rebuild on each individual node?&nbsp;&nbsp; ...

      Also, do I need to start the index rebuild on each individual node?   Or just on one node, and it tells the other node to rebuild?

      1. Feb 20, 2008

        Choy Li Tham says:

        Hi, Please include instructions for clustered installations The documentation ...

        Hi,

        Please include instructions for clustered installations

        The documentation here, which states the steps on how to create a Confluence cluster in Confluence may serve as a reference to you.

        To my understanding, there are two workaround that i can think of to rebuild index from scratch:

        1. Rebuild the index directory manually on each node or
        2. Rebuild the index directory in a single node. Then copy the latest index directory from the active node to others node, as mentioned in the documentation here.

        Regards,
        Choy Li

  2. Aug 22

    Frank Erzfeld says:

    As a hint for anybody experiencing the queue not being processed automatically a...

    As a hint for anybody experiencing the queue not being processed automatically anymore:

    Performing the rebuild-from-scratch solved the problem for us

    Thanks to atlassian support for assistance!

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