Why need to rebuild index so frequently?

[Mr Lucky]

Version 2.1.4 (no prefix for that!

A couple of weeks ago the search stopped working altogether, ie no search results.

Rebuilding the index solved it.

But then again yesterday, it would not find results for specific thread title. Again a rebuild it found it.

Is there a reason this should keep happening?

 

[Paul B]

Good to know @MattW and that makes sense as it's set in the DB from the original value.

I'll update the guide to make that clear (although the guide does need to be rewritten for XF2 anyway).

 

[Mr Lucky]

Are you using the same database name for your production and test sites?

No, that wouldn't work would it???

It's the first step in the guide.

No, that is to change the database name, which I obvioiusly did. Nothing about Elastic search hence I mentioned that for those with Enhanced search it would be useful to add it. It's a good guide but is IMO there for people less techy than you or Matt, so I would put that in there as it does seem to have caused this issue IMO.

 

[Paul B]

I have already updated the guide(s).

If you have XFES installed, update the Index name in admin.php?enhanced-search/ to ensure it uses a different index from your live site

I haven't checked but reconfiguring without making changes and saving may also updated the index name to the new database name.

 

[Mr Lucky]

I haven't checked but reconfiguring without making changes and saving may also updated the index name to the new database name.

Yes it did - the database fleld (Index name) was blank when clicking on reconfigure, I just saved and it automatically filled in the name of the dev database. Nice.