episerver search

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I'm following this example to get a fully functional search engine in episerver 8:

episerver example

Unfortunally I don't recieve any results. I think the example might be incomplete. I call the method FindPages, but get empty result.

I inted to search for content. Whould it be preferably to use FindPagesWithCriteria instead?

Kind regards

Daniel

#122171
May 27, 2015 15:17
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I keep getting: ERROR SearchSettings: Send batch for named index 'serviceName' failed. Items are left in queue..

And also I get a Remote Server returned an error 400. Been search world, but the solutions do not seem to be working for me.

Can anyone please help?

#122222
May 28, 2015 14:20
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I would not use Findpageswithcritera if you do a search page, since it is not good in performance.

Regarding the error.

You could try to delete the index-folder and reindex all by this adress:

 http://yoursite/EPiServer/CMS/Admin/IndexContent.aspx

#122250
May 28, 2015 15:21
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Thanks Fredrik. I've done that, but without any luck. Now I try to copy from Alloy site, hence I got it to work there. Holding my thumbs.

#122252
May 28, 2015 15:28
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Do that. Propably it has to do with some settings in web.config or simular.
EPiServer Search are often a pain in the ass to get to work propably and if you can use EPiServer Find, it is much better and more fun to work with

#122253
May 28, 2015 15:35
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Unfortunaly Episerver search is the path chosen in this project.

As mentioned earlier I try to implement the search functionality found in alloy to my site, but with low success rate. Just as before, the result is zero.

Henrik: Can you ellaborate on what might be tricky in the web.config file? As far as I see in the guidlines, it should be pretty straight forward. But is seldom is, is it= ;)

#122261
May 28, 2015 17:00
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The key thing in web.config is to get it to allow the right ip-range and to have the keys correctly.
It is also very important that you do not have the indexed shared by many updaters because that will kill your lucene-index. Only one server can update the index.

Read more here:

http://world.episerver.com/Forum/Developer-forum/-EPiServer-75-CMS/Thread-Container/2014/9/Is-my-EPiServer-Search-functioning-correctly/

http://world.episerver.com/Modules/Forum/Pages/Thread.aspx?id=121895

http://world.episerver.com/Modules/Forum/Pages/Thread.aspx?id=120933

#122265
May 28, 2015 20:58
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Thanks Henrik.

I'm still getting this in the episerver log:

2015-05-29 14:03:38,208 [11] ERROR SearchSettings: Update batch could not be sent to service uri 'http://local.mysite.se/IndexingService/IndexingService.svc/update/?accesskey=local'. Message: 'Fjärrservern returnerade ett fel: (400) Felaktig begäran.   vid System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse()

Any thoughts on that? when I run that url in the web browser I recieve a text message stating Method not allowed.

#122296
May 29, 2015 14:07
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Since the web site I'm developing doesn't contain very much content, I will use FindPagesWithCriteria instead.

#122358
Jun 01, 2015 9:53
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Sorry, had a busy weekend.

That sounds strange, and yes if you have a small site that might work.

Hope that EPiServer will add some effort into EPiServer Search, or replace it.

#122359
Jun 01, 2015 11:05
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I'm now using FindPagesWithCriteria. I'm searching in properties of type XHtmlString. To my disappointment I only get results from one of many, althoug they all include my searchword. It really bugs me out.

#122399
Jun 02, 2015 9:50
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Hi Dejan,

I red your comment a few days ago, but hadn't got time to look into it. Seemed interesting, but pretty similiar to EPiServer Search? Why did you erase the comment?

#122536
Jun 04, 2015 12:44
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I didn't want it to look like advertising :)

Here's the link to the original blog post: http://dcaric.com/blog/episerver-simple-search-and-shared-blocks

It's built on top of Lucene.NET, same as standard EPiServer search, and uses content events to automatically re-index all affected pages.

Why I think it could be useful to other EPiServer developers?

- In the case when the client doesn't want to invest more than a day in custom search solution. When he needs something very simple
- It's free, in terms of hosting, maintenance, what not
- It doesn't require any kind of configuration in web.config. If something goes wrong, you have the full source code so you can easily debug it, extend it, what not
- There are a few very good blog posts on how to extend the built-in EPi search functionality and how to index custom fields (blocks, for example). My SimpleSearch solution will index not just the current page, but all affected pages as well, which I believe is very important.

It has a few limitations as well, for example:
- Lucene.NET doesn't work very well with shared folders
- I didn't build the functionality for indexing the files (PDFs, office files, etc.)
- It doesn't have multi-language support
etc.

I always recommend EPiFind or custom search solution built on top of Apache Solr / Elasticsearch, but if that's not an option, my SimpleSearch solution will serve you well :)

#122539
Jun 04, 2015 14:14
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