Searching bug?

[Gutspiller]

I want to search for the word "beyond" I knew this was in the badwords.php, but I have cleared my badwords.php file out so I know that it isn't blocking it because of something in there. I still have the header and footer part in my badwords.php file, I just took out all the words because I want my search feature to actuall search. Anywho, can somebody tell me why my search feature still won't find the word beyond in any posts, even though I have a post that was posted today that has the word in it?

I'm confused. Shouldn't this work?

[Brad]

Dont remove badwords.php contents, it will kill your search index.

[Gutspiller]

I didn't say I removed it. I deleted all the entries in it and left the top and bottom. I also noticed that it has started to do it with other words as well. Is there a limit to how big a search index can be? If I put in the word "far" it finds two results. If I put in the words "far cry" it finds two results. If I put in the word "cry" it finds 84 results.

I'm wondering if the search index can only get so big before it starts overwriting itself.

I checked and my search index has 4,449,304 records and is 105.2 MB but my site is just starting. I have a lot of entries and I one single letter searches due to the function of my site. Could I have some how hit a problem with the search feature of VB? Should I try and rebuild my search index to fix the problem? Could rebuilding the search index take a lot of time due to the site and records I have?

Please help as the search feature is a major function of my website. :(

[Gutspiller]

Bump

[Gutspiller]

Bump. I'm going to bump this every 24 hours so you might as well answer. (hey 24 hours is within the rules. :p) Please help. :(

[Gutspiller]

bump

[Dean C]

Please don't bypass the bad-words filter :)

[filburt1]

Did you rebuild the search index?

Few people will reply if you constantly bump, so beware.

[Gutspiller]

Today at 11:21 AM filburt1 said this in Post #8 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?postid=421609#post421609)
Did you rebuild the search index?

Few people will reply if you constantly bump, so beware.
No I haven't rebuilt it yet. I was asking if that was something I should do? I know very little about how all that works and I wasn't sure how long it would take. I have my search feature able to enter single character searches so my search is getting pretty big, but it's all part of the way I want the site to work.

Should I rebuild my search index and see if that fixes the problem I was having? :paranoid:

[Erwin]

Because beyond was in badwords.php before, it was never added to your searchindex.

So to add it back, you need to rebuild your searchindex.

[Gutspiller]

Is building the search index something that you need to turn off your forums to do? I'm on a VPS so I don't know how my server resources will handle it. Should it be fine to leave the server up while I rebuild the index?

[Erwin]

Turn off your forums while rebuilding, or you run the risk of db corruption, and terms not being indexed.

[Gutspiller]

Thanks for the help Erwin. I'm glad somebody in this thread knows WTF they're talking about. ;)