Questions not appearing after a Rebuild from scratch of the Index. Do I need to restore?

Quinn Cervantes-Prevo

We had issues where only some of the questions weren't appearing in some of our spaces. We attempted to complete a UI driven rebuild of the content index, and that failed due to an OOM received. It was decided to adjust our heap and rebuild from scratch our content index. Now we can only see ~15 questions overall. We see there are questions that have been asked, and the only way to view those old ones, is if there is a direct link reference elsewhere in a page. 

Should we restore our index directory or question directory at this point? Is there another index we should complete? 

 

Shannon S

Hi Quinn,

Could you first try to rebuild your index from scratch and see if that helps?

• How to Rebuild the Content Indexes From Scratch on Confluence Server

The method for rebuilding the content index from scratch will vary depending on your version of Confluence.

For Confluence 5.6 and Above

1. Shut down Confluence

2. Perform a safety backup of the following two directories to a different location:

   • <confluence-home>/index/
   • <confluence-home>/journal/<br>

3. Delete the two original directories:

   • <confluence-home>/index/
   • <confluence-home>/journal/

4. (Optional): If your journalentry table is very large (10000+ entries) we recommend that you delete the contents of this table to shorten the rebuild time.

   Click here for instructions...

5. Start Confluence

6. Navigate to Confluence Admin > Content Indexing and click "Rebuild"

7. (Optional): If desired, restore the following directories from your backup from Step 2:

   • <confluence-home>/index/plugin - this is where the Usage Tracking plugin stores the usage statistics

   • <confluence-home>/index/edge - this is where popularity data for regular content is stored

   • <confluence-home>/index/questions-edge - this is where Confluence Questions stores popularity data

If you have trouble getting your questions back with that, please let me know your Confluence version as well as CQ version and what error messages you were seeing when the indexing failed.

Shannon