Magento Index Management – Fix Catalog Search Index Broken

With the help of @Axel I was able to fix the issue.

After digging into the Attributes and comparing the settings of the SKU since I could search by that and the settings of Name and Desc. I noticed a few differences.

here is what the SKU was set to

Here is what name was set to before I changed it

This is what I changed Name to

After that I re-indexed the site and then cleared the cache manually via ftp var/cache and deleted all folders in the cache then refreshed the site and tried to search and sure enough it works now.

Thank you Axel for pointing me in the right direction.

I also hope this helps anyone else having an issue with the search.

Svetoslav,

In the future please post the specs about your hosting OS, version of Magento, etc. I am going to just post some typical solutions to your problem.

Run Indexing from the CLI

1. from the CLI at the root of your magento installation

   php shell/indexer.php --reindex catalog_product_price
   

No folders in var/

1. Make sure that the var/ folder has the correct file permissions and ownership. Magento needs to write to those folders.

   Magento Permissions & Privileges

2. I recently ran across an install of magento that located the var folder in the root tmp folder of the server, you may want to check there. It was located in /tmp/magento/var/ If your var folder is located there, it is because you have a permissions issue.

Change your memory limit

I agree with sean! Change this in your .htaccess that is located in your site root

ini_set('memory_limit','2048M');