How to delete an inaccessible page?

[starwarsfan]

Hi all together

I need to delete a page which can't be opened but is visible on the navigation. So the question is, how to determine the page ID of this page!? Every link show's the page's name instead of the ID but to delete a page, the ID must be used. Any suggestions how to do this?

Background: The page uses a redirect witch immediately redirects to another, no longer existing page. Because of this redirect I'ts impossible to "show" the page to access the page menu.

Kind regards,

Yves

[William Zanchet [Atlassian] · Accepted solution]

Hey Yves,

You can get the page's id running the following SQL query:

select contentid from content where title like '%NAME OF YOUR PAGE%' AND contenttype = 'PAGE';

This should return the ID. Once you have it, you just need to get to an admin account, and go to this specific page:

http://YOUR_CONFLUENCE_URL/pages/removepage.action?pageId=ID_FROM_THE_QUERY

This should do the trick.

Cheers,
WZ

[starwarsfan]

Hi William,

thx a lot, that did the trick. :-)

Kind regards,

Yves

[Roey HalfonWork]

Hi Where do I need to to run this query? Thanks.

[Josch Bencke]

Hi Yves,

the redirect is an effect, that is executed by the browser, if I recall correctly.

You could use the Comandline interface (CLI) or the Webdav Interface to open the "wiki path" and then delete the node there.

Good luck,

Josh

[CharlesH]

The Reporting plugin can be handy here. The markup below generates a table with columns to edit or delete each page. The Reporting plugin can retrieve the page id easily, even if you can't visit the page to get it:

{report-table}

{local-reporter:content:children|type=page}
{text-sort:content:title}{local-reporter}

{report-column:title=Page Name}
*{report-info:content:title|link=true}*{report-column}

{report-column:title=Page Id}
{report-info:content:id}{report-column}

{report-column:title=Edit}
{report-link:content:id|atlassian-macro-output-type=INLINE|prefix=/pages/editpage.action?pageId\=}Edit{report-link}
{report-column}

{report-column:title=Remove}
{report-link:content:id|atlassian-macro-output-type=INLINE|prefix=/pages/removepage.action?pageId\=}Remove{report-link}
{report-column}

{report-empty}
Cannot generate table - there are no 1st level child pages below the current page.{report-empty}
{report-table}