Recent content by Richard Faulkner

Interestingly, with this search reindex google is now indexing 4000 out of about 22000 pages. I think something is wrong with the structure of the forum which is preventing these standard operations from behaving correctly?

OK - Immediate feedback is that the number of results is still not where it should be. I feel like it may not be indexing everything for the search correctly. Can I check whether the indexing operation has created the correct records? Thanks, Rich.

Just done the rebuild and it's drastically improved matters, LT77 now returns 117 results. I think that result is still down, but a lot lot better. I'm going to let the masses try it and I'll report back and let you know how we get on. Thanks for your help :) Rich

Brilliant - thanks for the tip on redirection! I'll work through that in the next day or so. I'm going to see if i can run the old forum back up for a day or so just to get some search results. I believe phpbb and xenforo both use mysql's full text search so hopefully that will shed some light...

Hi Brogan, Thanks for pointing me over here. Definitely the right place to be asking the question considering the responses I'm getting here. The threads are all enabled so should be working as far as i can see. There are some sections which are disabled, but that was due to a first aborted...

Hi Mike, Thanks for replying. I was just trying to give an approximation of the number of results. While I'm a c#/c++ developer by trade, in Qt and MS environments generally, My php/mysql knowledge isn't that great I'll admit (although that may be changing in the near future to to an...

Hi, Yes - google still has the results from the phpbb version of the forum. Unfortunately i didnt realise I needed to match the IDs on import, and that opportunity has passed as people are using it. It does however show you the number of results we should be getting for that search phrase, at...

Hi Tracy, Thanks for the reply. Yes, I've tried doing that a couple of times. It appears to complete successfully...

also SELECT * FROM `xf_search_index` where message like '%lt77%' returns 686 results, which if i'm understanding the db structure correctly would be the correct number of results.

Hi All, New here, so apologies if there is an obvious answer. I've recently moved our forum (classicroverforum.net) from phpbb3 to xenforo. THe upgrade has been mostly successful, but the one main issue with the forum itself that seems to be left is that the search function doesnt seem to...

Thanks Brogan I'll do that. I'm hoping there is some configuration I can tweak - thanks for the reply :)

bit late for that ;) More just a note for anyone else finding the thread. The search is what i'm hoping someone can help with...

Sounds great. The only real issues I've had are the fact it didn't keep my forum and post IDs on import, which is a shame as i discovered it only after a few days. The other major problem seems to be that the standard search option really is poor compared to phpbb3. Does anybody have any tips...

Moved to Xenforo and the forumites are mostly happy. A Great success so far.... For anybody searching - Xenforo's import process is superb. NO messing around. The most difficult bit is getting the correct connection string for the db.

Brilliant - well i think you've made up my mind... I asked this question of a few different forum software providers and this is the quickest response as well as being the response i wanted to hear. Thanks for your help :)