Unable to recreate a sharepoint site with a name that was previously used

Question

I created a test site in sharepoint using the Enterprise search template with the name 'search'. So my site was http://mysite/search. Well I deleted that site and tried to recreate it with that same name and it fails.

I can create a site with the name search1, search2, etc and they all are created properly, but if I delete search1, or search2 and repeat what I did above those fails as well.

It seems like sharepoint isn't properly deleting the sites and there are orphaned files somewhere.

Any suggestions as to how I can resolve this?

Answer 1

Looks like, Site is still in SharePoint Admin Bin.You should this.

• Use powershell to create site collection

Or

• Run this command Get-SPDeletedSiteenter link description here and if you get all the sites you are having issue then
• Run Remove-SPDeletedSite -Identity

• Manually run the Gradual Site Delete timer job from central admin.

• after this try to created again.

Answer 2

You can use the this command

Get-SPWebApplication <http://url:port> | Get-SPSite -Limit All | Get-SPWeb -Limit All | Select Title, URL, ID, ParentWebID

This will return the id and parent id for all sub sites from the choosed site. If your "search" site is on this list, you could use:

Remove-SPWeb <http://url>