By wahwah on

Hello

I use a Drupal installation 4.6.3 with numerous modules installed and the site is still under testing. Drupal has been installed using Fantastico.

The Search function is not working AT ALL: i.e. for content and for members.

I remember reading somewhere on the forums that fantastico installs give search related issues, but couldn't find it again. Is this true?

Also, how do I fix this now? The site has been customised to some degree now (to my capabilities, which are few), and therefore a re-install using the more traditional method would be near-impossible.

Is there some kind of bugfix available? How do I make the Search function work?

Thanks
Ninad

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.6.x

Comments

erdemkose’s picture

erdemkose commented

Lets make a checklist:

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  1. Enable 'Search' module in ?q=admin/module
  2. See ?q=admin/settings/search to see how many items are left to index.
    1. If there are some items to index THEN run 'cron.php' from your browser like http://www.server.com/cron.php
  3. Check ?q=admin/settings/search again to see the status of search module.

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If this list does not solve your problem then reply with some more details about your installation.

wahwah’s picture

wahwah commented

Thanks a million. Your checklist was super-effective.

I have now employed the poormanscorn module to do the work for me now.

prole’s picture

prole commented

thanks a lot

yakutistan’s picture

yakutistan commented

Thanks a lot.. Is there any way to manage that job automatically?

Anything-1’s picture

Anything-1 commented

Thanks, worked perfectly!

dkumawat3’s picture

dkumawat3 commented

Thank you so much. It's worked.

kamalzairig’s picture

kamalzairig
Location Rabat
commented

Thank you, it's working for me.

girishphp’s picture

girishphp commented

i have follow the procedure which are mention above but its not searching the content.

amitverma’s picture

amitverma commented

:)

dninja’s picture

dninja commented

Moved to http://drupal.org/node/177163

h3000’s picture

h3000 commented

Hi,

What are the necessary tables needed by search to index the site? It may be that I inadvertently deleted some table needed by the search function because I deleted some tables that I thought were not needed by Drupal search. I have the search_index, search_total and search_dataset tables.

Now, after deleting some tables, search is not working anymore - it says 99% of the site is indexed but when I try to search for old venues, the search results are empty. The items I searched are definitely not part of the 1% that is not yet indexed because before I deleted tables, those old nodes appeared in the search results.

I tried to re-index the site. Cron is set up to run every minute with 20 items to index every cron run. However after a short while (probably 5-10 minutes) I check again and it shows that 99% of the site has been indexed already. But old nodes still don't appear in the search results - only new nodes or updated nodes get indexed.

Anyone have any similar experience?

My setup is Drupal 5.7 on LAMP setup

Thanks,
Hector

ajsahib’s picture

ajsahib commented

Thanks for the help.

candan’s picture

candan commented

thank u.

arpit_dru’s picture

arpit_dru commented

Its working for me :)

geniousleo’s picture

geniousleo commented

Its working for me :)

3c71’s picture

3c71 commented

Thanks! That worked for me, after fixing various bugs created by my provider's recent updates:

https://www.drupal.org/node/1446372

https://www.drupal.org/node/842620