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Originally Posted by Neil Lock

skipping index 'vbfulltext' (distributed indexes can not be directly indexed)...
skipping index 'vbfulltextthread' (distributed indexes can not be directly indexed)...
those are the last 2 results - the dirstributed indexes is that error suppose to be there?

Yes

Originally Posted by Neil Lock

secondly when i run a search --config path qry it appears to work and give back results however upon turning on the searchd i dont seem to get any results the echos on my search.php
Query '' retrieved 0 of 0 matches in 0.000 sec.
Query stats:
'test' found 0 times in 0 documents

and there are no queries on my searchd.log

any starting point suggestions- i guess the searchd isnt being queried however when i switch it off the echo alerts me that searchd is not running? is one of the issues that im using 3.5?

Are you starting the searchd with --config path too?