Topic on Extension talk:CirrusSearch

Recently migrated a wiki from one server to another, everything seems to be working fine except for Cirrus.

When re-running ForceSearchIndex.php in order to repopulate the fresh elasticsearch install after UpdateSearchIndexConfig etc, I doesn't seem to be populating anything.

[            x] Indexed 9 pages ending at 946 at 55/second

[            x] Indexed 10 pages ending at 968 at 85/second

[            x] Indexed 9 pages ending at 986 at 99/second

[            x] Indexed 10 pages ending at 999 at 50/second

[            x] Indexed 10 pages ending at 1012 at 58/second

[            x] Indexed 10 pages ending at 1024 at 66/second

[            x] Indexed 10 pages ending at 1035 at 72/second

[            x] Indexed 10 pages ending at 1046 at 79/second

[            x] Indexed 10 pages ending at 1058 at 84/second

It runs through the pages as if it was correctly doing it and finishes with no errors, however attempting to do a search will always return no results.

And after running CirrusNeedsToBeBuilt.php just to verify there's data, I'm getting

Elasticsearch status:  green

No pages in the content index.  Indexes were probably wiped.

Is there something I've done wrong?

Thanks!

You need to set $wgDisableSearchUpdate = true; before running updateSearchIndexConfig.php, then set $wgDisableSearchUpdate = false; before running forceSearchIndex.php, which needs to be run in 2 stages (--skipLinks --indexOnSkip first, and --skipParse next)

Performed that before but tried it again just to be sure I didn't mix up anything and same deal sadly.

Forgot to mention my versions as well:

MediaWiki: 1.35.0 (c1e34e3)

PHP: 7.3.19-1~deb10u1 (fpm-fcgi)

MariaDB: 10.5.6-MariaDB-1:10.5.6+maria~buster

Elasticsearch: 6.5.4

I downgraded from 6.8.12 to the same version Wikipedia uses just to be sure it wasn't that and unfortunately there was no difference either.

Appreciate the help though!

Mystery solved. "Indexed x pages" was a bit misleading, it had actually added them to the job queue, not actually indexed them.

The problem I had was the cronjob for the queue wasn't moved over with the website (forgot about it), as a result nothing was being submitted to ES!