Activation pending in CQ5

Question

I have created a test page in the Geometrixx site in CQ5. I can see the page very well on 4502 port (author environment). But when I activate the page to see it on the 4503 port (Publish environment) , I always see the yellow colored icon in front of the page on console which on hover says 'Activation pending. #1 in Queue'

Is there some workflow attached to it ? If so, how can I check it out and probably kill it (for now) ? Or is there some other reason ?

Answer 1

The default replication queue settings points to localhost:4503. If your publish instance is not located on the same machine as the author instance (which is common), you will need to change the settings to point to a valid publish instance. Once a valid publish instance is configured the items queued for activation should get processed and the icons will change from yellow to green.

If the queue is blocked, you can clear it by:

• going to /etc/replication/agents.author.html
• Clicking on the default replication agent.
• Then clicking on 'clear' above the queue. This will clear the entire queue.
• If you want to clear one or more specific items in the queue, you can select them then click clear.

This page has a few steps on troubleshooting replication agents: http://helpx.adobe.com/cq/kb/replication-stuck.html

This page has some general information about replication agents: http://dev.day.com/docs/en/cq/current/deploying/configuring_cq.html#Replicating from Author to Publish