Hi,

You could check few things:

1) Check the web.config section if it's configured correctly

<episerver.search active="true">
<namedIndexingServices defaultService="serviceName">
<services>
<add name="serviceName" baseUri="http://localhost/IndexingService/IndexingService.svc" accessKey="local" />
</services>
</namedIndexingServices>
<searchResultFilter defaultInclude="true">
<providers />
</searchResultFilter>
</episerver.search>

2) Check if the address http://localhost/IndexingService/IndexingService.svc will return "endpoint not found" (then it's ok).

3) You could check the EPiServer logs.

You could turn on logging:

<logger name="EPiServer.Search.IndexingService.IndexingService">
<level value="Debug" />
<appender-ref ref="IndexingServiceAppender" />
</logger>

4) Could be a problem with SSL.

Hi Grzegorz,

Thanks for that. 1 and 2 are fine, I'll ask the client to turn on logging and if they are using SSL

The strange thing is that results are being returned which suggests it's configured correctly however it seems to only search against page ID rather than page name where ours does the reverse.

Thanks,

Mark

Hi,

I have one more suggesion. You could also check if your Application Pool user have access rights to folder where index is stored (e.g. C:\indexes\EPiServerSearchIndex).

<episerver.search.indexingservice>
<clients>
<add name="local" description="local" allowLocal="true" readonly="false" />
</clients>
<namedIndexes defaultIndex="default">
<indexes>
<add name="default" directoryPath="C:\indexes\EPiServerSearchIndex" readonly="false" />
</indexes>
</namedIndexes>
</episerver.search.indexingservice>

Thanks Grzegorz,

I think the last suggestion would be ok as the index is on the same file share as the assets which are used on the site (and the site has no problems accessing assets). This would still not explain why results are actually being returned but when searching by page ID rather than page name.

Mark

I've been having this same issue for quite awhile and have been unable to figure it out myself.  Same issue, searching by ID seems to work, but by name for any type of object does not work and returns no results.

Hopefully someone can finally answer this and help all of us out who wish to use the search feature within the CMS

Hi Mike,

Did you find a solution to this? Our client is still seeing the issue.

Thanks,

Mark