Search not working - seeking help

[lbrent2k]

The index.json file in public is empty.

index.json in layouts/_default is:

{{- $.Scratch.Add "index" slice -}}
{{- range .Site.RegularPages -}}
{{- $.Scratch.Add "index" (dict "title" .Title "tags" .Params.tags "categories" .Params.categories "contents" .Plain "permalink" .Permalink) -}}
{{- end -}}
{{- $.Scratch.Get "index" | jsonify -}}

I run hugo server --config config/default/config.yaml --disableFastRender --logLevel debug and aside from search everything works great.

[Orlokun]

Hi @lbrent2k, did you find a solution to this? I also can't make search work.
Thanks!

[lbrent2k]

When I added content to blog I did get search results. I don't know if search is supposed to only be for blog though.

[Orlokun]

Ok I fixed it on my end. My issue was that I was being sent to the template page when pressed the search results. #161

My config was fine, the problem was that on the baseUrl parameter at the beginning of the hugo file, I hadn't applied my site URL. and still had the template as base Url. Hope this works out for you.

[hrokr]

So far as I'm aware, the search is for blogs only. It may also work for images, but I don't use them and I don't think they have tags which would make them searchable.