Delete a project with empty repos

[BeaconEducator]

We recently upgraded our servers. We moved our the database and restored users. However we lost our repos in the transition. The repos still appear in bitbucket but I cannot delete because they are empty. When I click on them I get a 404 error. I cannot delete the old projects without deleting the repos first but are empty and go to a 404 page. How can I remove the projects?

[Tomasz Tokarczuk]

Hi BeaconEducator,

Could you please let us know:

- if you have moved the $BITBUCKET_HOME/shared  as well or did you leave it in the same place? This is the directory that stores the actual repository data. 

- If you have moved the $BITBUCKET_HOME/shared did you update your new Bitbucket Server version to use the new directory? You need to update your $BITBUCKET_INSTALL/bin/set-bitbucket-home.sh (or set-bitbucket-home.bat)  with the new path if that was the case.

Please also make sure the user running your Bitbucket Server process has the ownership of the whole $BITBUCKET_HOME  directory.

Cheers

Tomek

Atlassian

[BeaconEducator]

This issue was the shared folder was not moved and so the repo had nothing to link to causing the 404 error.

We could never find a response on how to get around the 404 pages displaying and removing the old project.

I opened SQL Server Management and removed the old instances of the projects and repos from the database, which in turn removed the projects/repositories from Bitbucket.