* I will like to trigger content indexing every morning via a script do we have rest api to do this via the curl command ? Thanks, Moses

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How to automate Content indexing in confluence server

Moses Thomas_08kyb0

I will like to trigger content indexing every morning via a script do we have rest api to do this via the curl command ?

Thanks,

Moses

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Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

There's an obvious question - why do you want to do this?

Confluence does not need to be re-indexed regularly, pages are indexed automatically. Needing to re-index is indicative of a significant change or a problem with the data. So what have you done to it that makes it seem like it needs doing every morning?

Moses Thomas_08kyb0

Hello Nic,

My confluence is working fine, but to be on safe side with search content in confluence i would like to perform it time to time so do we have a possibility like in Jira or not ?

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Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

There's an obvious question - why do you want to do this?

Moses Thomas_08kyb0

Hello Nic,

My confluence is working fine, but to be on safe side with search content in confluence i would like to perform it time to time so do we have a possibility like in Jira or not ?

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

It's the same as Jira - run an external script that triggers it.

Complete waste of time though. Indexing in Jira is only needed if something goes wrong or for some config changes. Same goes for Confluence - it's pointless re-indexing a working system. In fact, it's worse, because searches stop working during a re-index.

Moses Thomas_08kyb0

Hello Nic,

It is not pointless to re-index in confluence(search indexing also called content indexing) at least once a month, sometimes i have problem with searching for users in confluence even though user in available in directory when i want to add permission to user in a page, but when i do content indexing user appears

I have search for rest api to trigger indexing automatically i cannot find, do you know where to find the rest API ?

Best regards,

Moses

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

If you think you need to re-index regularly, then that tells me you have a problem with the indexing that you need to fix, not just hide by regularly rebuilding.

You need to look into why your users can't be found, as you have a broken setup somewhere.