use case: browser closed after space delete command

[Abhishek Pratap Singh]

Hi All,

To delete a space, I performed the below steps (in my local machine)

Browse->Space Admin->Delete Space

Delete operation started, since the space was very big it took more than hours I anticipated, so I closed the browser.

On next working day, I again followed the same steps to delete the space (this time from a remote machine). deletion started again, but after few hours a 'delete space failed' message appeared in browser window.

Now I have following queries (as I am new to confluence):

1) Is delete operation happens in background, even if I close the browser window?

2) althogh I am not able to find the space in wiki now, not even in database. I am not sure, it's deleted successfully or not?

3) I've also tried to delete space using curl:

curl -v -S -u USERNAME:PASSWORD -X DELETE http://SERVERNAME/confluence/rest/api/space/SPACEKEY

but that results into following error:

HTTP Status 403: Access to the specified resource has been forbidden.

Regards,

Abhishek

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

1) Yes, it will continue

2) If you can't find the space, it's been deleted.  The process deletes the "header" last, and the header is the bit that tells Confluence that there is a space there.

I've seen this a couple of times on large space deletes, I've never worked out why the error is thrown even though the process completes ok.

[Abhishek Pratap Singh]

Thanks for your response, that clears my doubt.

[Abhishek Pratap Singh]

Any solotion for the issue mentioned in 3rd point.

Is this error is related to wiki application or it's tomcat only.

As with the same credentials, I am ablt to delete space with browser.

Regards,

Abhishek

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Your REST call looks ok, but a 403 for that call means either your credentials are wrong, you don't have delete space rights, or the space has already been deleted.