Error Removing Attachments if Attachments Folder Is a Symbolic Link
Symptoms
Despite no visible error in Confluence, removing an attachment results in the following error in atlassian-confluence.log
:
2009-07-09 15:48:07,932 ERROR [TP-Processor34] [pages.persistence.dao.FileSystemAttachmentDataDao] removeDataForAttachment Error removing the attachments folder
for the page with id: 9177303 folder: /local/mnt/confluence/attachments/9177303/10355140 Not writable
Filesystem permissions are configured correctly.
Cause
The attachments
folder in <confluence-home-directory> is a symbolic link (symlink).
Resolution
Remove the symbolic link and move back the real attachments
directory to <confluence-home-directory>/attachments
. See Confluence Home and other important directories.
Last modified on Mar 30, 2016
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