CMS 12 Indexing issue in local "Can not start indexing job this t

CMS 12 Indexing issue in local "Can not start indexing job this time due to service's config is unreadable. Please try again later."

Deepmala S

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I am facing issue while running the indexing job in my local environment. Even i have updated demo index as well still issue is persist. Error shown below.

"Can not start indexing job this time due to service's config is unreadable. Please try again later."

Can anyone suggest?

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Edited, Jun 22, 2026 7:42

Wojciech Seweryn

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Hi,

I would first check the local Search & Navigation configuration, for CMS 12 the config is normally in appsettings.json, for example:

    {
        "EPiServer": {
            "Find": {
                "DefaultIndex": "your_index...",
                "ServiceUrl": "https://service...."
            }
        }
    }

Also make sure services.AddFind() is registered, and check whether appsettings.Development.json or local environment variables are overriding these values with empty or old settings.

If the config looks correct, I would also check whether the scheduled job is stuck from a previous run.

In a local environment you can check dbo.tblScheduledItem for the Find indexing job and see if IsRunning is still set to 1 even though nothing is actually running. If so, stop the site, reset IsRunning to 0 and run the job manually.

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Edited, Jun 22, 2026 8:38

Deepmala S

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Hi Wojciech Seweryn,

I thing on friday there was an issue in demo find index. Now i have updated again it is working fine.

Thanks

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Edited, Jun 22, 2026 10:28

Wojciech Seweryn

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Hi,

Thanks for the update, glad to hear it is working fine now :)

Best regards,
Wojciech

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Jun 22, 2026 11:53