Hello,
I am having trouble getting facets to show up on my site, whether on the main page or on the search results page. I believe I have all the stated prerequisites. There are some commonly-used-with-search-facets modules like Views that I have not installed, but my understanding is that Views is not a prerequisite to getting faceted search to work.
This is what I've done so far:
1. Installed Drupal 7.10 on a shared server (using Softaculous install at A2 Hosting).
2. Added the following modules:
a) Chaos Tool Suite (with only "Chaos Tools" checked)
b) Entity API (with only "Entity API" checked)
c) Database Search (to provide backend for Search API)
d) Search API (with only "Database search", "Search API", and "Search facets" checked.
e) Facet API (with "Facet API" checked)
3. Went to [Structure > Taxonomy] and created 6 new vocabularies, adding terms for each vocabulary.
4. Went to [Configuration > Search API > Add server] and created a new server using "Database service" as the service class.
5. Went to [Configuration > Search API > Add index] and created a new index called "my-site-search" of ITEM TYPE "node" and for SERVER I selected the one I just created in the previous step.