Symptoms

• Some pages do not exist when accessing Confluence via WebDAV.
• The missing pages can be accessed in Confluence interface eg. via the pagetree view.
• There is no error in the log file.

Cause

The CONFANCESTORS table is out of sync in the database.

Strict path checking is enabled by default to respect the file system hierarchy that the plugin exposes. Unfortunately, that can cause problems like WBDV-175. The problem is related to corrupt page ancestor data and we recommend that users affected by the problem fix it by rebuilding the ancestor table.

Resolution

See Rebuilding the ancestor table for a procedure on rebuilding this table.