For reasons of efficiency, Confluence does not immediately add content to the index. New and modified Confluence content is first placed in a queue and the queue is processed once every minute (by default).
The content indexes power Confluence's search functionality. They are also used for a number of related functions such as building email threads in the mail archive, the space activity feature and lists of recently-updated content. The Gliffy plugin also uses them for some of its functionality.
For reasons of efficiency, Confluence does not immediately add content to the index. New and modified Confluence content is first placed in a queue and the queue is processed once every minute (by default).
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To see information about your Confluence instance's content indexing,
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Screenshot: Index summary
The content indexes are maintained automatically, but you may need to rebuild one or both of them manually under circumstances such as these:
In new Confluence installations, the 'Did You Mean' feature is not initially activated. To activate it, you first need to build its index by clicking its 'Build' button on this page. |
To rebuild either of the content indexes,
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Screenshot: Content Indexing
Does the reindexing take a long time to complete? The length of time depends on the following factors:
It may help to increase the heap memory allocation of Confluence by following the instructions in the JIRA documentation.
If you are running an older version of Confluence and find that the index rebuild is not progressing, you may need to shut down Confluence, and restart it with the following Java system property set: bucket.indexing.threads.fixed=1. This will cause the re-indexing to happen in a single thread and be much more stable (but slower).
Confluence uses a search engine called Lucene. If you need to see more details of the indexed pages in your Confluence site, you can download and run Luke. Luke is a development and diagnostic tool that accesses existing Lucene indexes and allows you to display and modify their content in several ways.
Start Luke and use it to open the index directory, located in your Confluence Home directory. For example:
c:\confluence\data\confluence-home\index.
The space activity feature uses the index to store data. If you remove the index file, the existing activity data will disappear.
