I'm still having problems getting my site to be searchable. My cron.php hasn't worked since Feb 24th (as detailed here: http://drupal.org/node/53394), so my site hasn't been indexed since then. That means my users can't search all of the new content.
My understanding is that trip_search (which looks like a great module) is supposed to search in the actual database itself, which sounds great. Except that, even with the "full_text_indices.mysql" table installed, it doesn't do any better searching than the default "search.module" did.
What's stranger is that I used Webmin to create a schedule to run the /scripts/cron-lynx.sh script every 15 minutes...and it appears to be running cron.php! But, it's odd in the way it's doing it:
1. Every 15 minutes my newsfeeds are getting updated, as I would expect (and I can see the cron runs in watchdog)...but not all of them, and not every time. So, a random couple of them get updated one run, another couple another run.
2. Even though the cron run appears to be taking place, indexing of my site still reads "0% of 100 items have been indexed". I've tried changing the minumum number of characters, I've tried changing the number of items to index...nothing makes a difference. cron.php still does nothing to index my site.
I'm telling ya, I'm about ready to climb to the top of a tower with a high-powered rifle if I can't figure this out.