How to delete a Confluence page with an error ?

[Mayane]

Hello dear Community,

Our customers created documentation pages on Confluence and few of them are not accessible anymore due to an error : 

caused by: java.net.URISyntaxException: Illegal character in path at index 17: /display/PRODIGY/[EZ][GDPR]+Ajouter+un+lien+vers+le+bandeau+privacy
    at java.net.URI$Parser.fail(URI.java:2848)

In the meantime of correcting the error, we wish to delete the pages, and yet we can't proceed for the pages don't display the classical page menu.

Is it possible to delete page from another interface in the Confluence admin for instance?

Thx  for your help fellow Confluencians !

Mayane

[Tobias Anstett _K15t_]

Hi Mayane,

As the page contains special characters – accessing the page should display the URL similar than this:

YOUR_CONFLUENCE/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=THE_PAGE_ID

If you have access to the page id you can delete it by changing the URL to:

YOUR_CONFLUENCE/pages/removepage.action?pageId=THE_PAGE_ID

assuming your user has delete page permissions on a space level and edit permissions on the page itself.

Best,
Tobias

[Mayane]

Hello Tobias,

Thanks a lot for your help  !

I tried your solution, though our URL structure is a bit different so we ended up with 404 not found.

Anyway, if i sort out our URL structure, i believe this can solve the problem.

Thanks a lot and have a nice day.

Mayane

[Manon Soubies-Camy]

Hello @Mayane and welcome to Community!

Have you tried accessing these pages from different browsers?

Would restrict these pages be enough? Meaning, would it be OK if you just restricted viewing of these pages instead of deleting them? You could create a new page, apply view restriction on it, and then move the error pages under it - since view restrictions are inherited, no one could see the error pages.

If you still want to delete pages, you can use WebDAV instead of the usual menu:

• Use a WebDAV Client to Work with Pages
• Configuring a WebDAV client for Confluence

Hope this helps!

- Manon

[Mayane]

Hello Manon,

Thanks a lot for your help  !

Indeed, the problem still occurs whichever browser i use.

Anyway, hidding the pages and playing with restricitions was just what we needed for the  moment.

Thanks again and have a great day !

Mayane 

[Manon Soubies-Camy]

Glad it helped! :)