I have no problems or "errors" when I use the search engine, but when I search for "key words" it finds nothing....not even when I kNOW for a fact that there should be threads that pop up in the search. If I search for a username, then it works. What could be causing this?
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Using the built in search or fulltext? If built in, did you try rebuilding your search indexes?
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It appears you are using vBulletin's built-in search and the searchindex is empty. You need to rebuild the search index under Maintenance -> Update Counters -> Rebuild Search Index or switch to MySQL's Fulltext search under vBulletin Options -> Search Type.Translations provided by Google.
Wayne Luke
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It should be in affect as soon as the search index is rebuilt. Did you check each of the forums to make sure that 'Index New Posts in Search Engine ' is set to 'Yes'?Steve Machol, former vBulletin Customer Support Manager (and NOT retired!)
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No, they do not reset during an upgrade. I'm not sure why this happened.Steve Machol, former vBulletin Customer Support Manager (and NOT retired!)
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Steve Machol Photography
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Hey there ..
yesterday we switched towards vbb 3.5.1 only to find out that we have the exact same problem.
"Index New Posts in Search Engine" is set to no in all our 25 forums sections.Comment
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I found the query to turn on indexing for all forums at once. This assumes no table prefix of course:
UPDATE forum SET options = options+16384 WHERE NOT (options & 16384);Steve Machol, former vBulletin Customer Support Manager (and NOT retired!)
Change CKEditor Colors to Match Style (for 4.1.4 and above)
Steve Machol Photography
Mankind is the only creature smart enough to know its own history, and dumb enough to ignore it.
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widgetinstance 262 (Related Topics) skipped due to lack of content & hide_module_if_empty option.
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