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I am trying to get the search form working. When I try to search for things with and without wildcards it always turns up with a message saying search yiedled 0 results. Not sure what else I have to do to get this to work.

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heine commented

Search works using an index. This index is generated during a cron.php run or, if you have many nodes, during multiple cron.php runs.

Did you setup a crontab entry for cron.php or do you use poormanscron?
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aoegamers.com commented

Hmmm.. I did not set that up. How would I do that?

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Cromicon commented

You can also register here:
www.webcron.org/index.php?&lang=en
and set that up to visit www.yoursite.com/cron.php at regular intervals.

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aoegamers.com commented

Sorry for asking to begin with lol. I did more research and found an article that explained what I just asked. I modified the lynx-cron.sh and it works now :)

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aoegamers.com commented

Thanks for the help guys! That was quick and the problem is resolved! Thanks for the site too, I will go there!

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Barleyman commented

Go to mysite.com/cron.php where "mysite.com" is your drupal domain.

Once you hit this page once your index will be updated and your search should work.

This is a php file (with no output to screen) which is doing a bunch of stuff in the background including indexing for search to work properly. This file should be run periodically to do required drupal maintenance. Most people set up a cron job on linux to "hit" this url every day or hour, depending on how often your site is changing.

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icenogle commented

I'm having a hit and miss kind of experience with search, with 4.7. I think that it's working, but then it doesn't. I noted a user's search failing in the admin log and I tried it, and it didn't work for me, either, even though in the same log it says cron is running successfully every hour.

I finally went to the search settings page and forced a re-indexing. I had 176 items to index, and a setting to do 100 items, so I ran cron.php twice. Now I can, in fact, find the item that I previously couldn't.

Should manually re-indexing be necessary? Is there anything that has to be done, specifically, to get cron.php to index new material as it's added? Is it possibly a 4.6 to 4.7 transition issue with the index?

D Icenogle