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How to flush Confluence cache from the command line, without restarting Confluence?

How to flush Confluence cache from the command line, without restarting Confluence?

I am looking for a solution to flush Confluence cache without restarting the service.

It has to be a scriptable solution, one that I can include inside a script.

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If you mean Confluence plugin cache. The cache are used to keep frequently used information handy. If you clear it without restarting Confluence, that will make some plugins fail.

If you mean Conflnuence cache, you can flush it from the user interface in "Confluence Admin" > "Cache Statistics" but unfortunately there is not a method in the API for this so I don't think it can be easily scripted.

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The following script works from Confluence 5.5 onward and flushes all the caches:

#!/bin/sh

HOST=$1
USERNAME="admin"
PASSWORD="xxx"

JSESSIONID=`curl --cookie-jar - --data "os_username=$USERNAME&amp;os_password=$PASSWORD" "$HOST/dologin.action" | grep JSESSIONID | awk '{ print $7 }'`
curl --cookie JSESSIONID=$JSESSIONID --request DELETE "$HOST/rest/cacheManagement/1.0/cacheEntries"

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Hi Olli,

Thanks for the very quick response

My problem turned out to be the fact I gave the hostname as just "HOST" parameter as just the hostname (MYSERVER) and not the http address to Confluence (http://MYSERVER:8090).

Thanks again!

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Hi Shay,

You seem to get that error from an Apache instance that is sitting in front of your Confluence instance. You would have to ask the administrator of that instance why it is blocking your DELETE request.

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Olli, I've tried your script but am getting this error:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>405 Method Not Allowed</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Method Not Allowed</h1>
<p>The requested method DELETE is not allowed for the URL /rest/cacheManagement/1.0/cacheEntries.</p>
<hr>
<address>Apache/2.2.15 (Red Hat) Server at localhost Port 80</address>
</body></html>

Can you advise?

Thanks!

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You could write a command line script to access the Admin screen llinks mentioned by Alex using curl or something. You can pass credentials in at the command line to authenticated...though you'll have to circumnavigate the second admin login.

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