I have made some changes to my searching page. In dev, everything is working as planned. I'm having issues when I push the changes to production.

Dev environment is Win10Pro, VS2017, IIS Express. Production environment is WinServer2012R2, IIS8

When I run searches in Prod, I get a "Key is not present in dictionary" exception.

Both dev and prod are pointed at the same database (SQL Server 12)

I copied the entire root directory from dev to prod, so all the config files are exactly the same.

Code:

        var searcher = ExamineManager.Instance.SearchProviderCollection["ExternalSearcher"];
        var searchCriteria = searcher.CreateSearchCriteria(BooleanOperation.Or);
        var query = searchCriteria.Field("nodeName", s)
                .Or()
                .Field("postContent", s)
                .Or()
                .Field("postTags", s)
                .Or()
                .Field("postAuthor", s)
                .Compile();
        var searchResults = searcher.Search(query);
        foreach (var searchResult in searchResults)
        {
            var sb = new StringBuilder();
            foreach (var searchResultField in searchResult.Fields)
            {
                sb.AppendLine($"{searchResultField.Key}");
            }
            return Content(sb.ToString());
        }

This foreach just goes into the first result and returns all the fields that are return in the search result. This is just a test to see what's different.

IN DEV:

id key parentID level writerID creatorID nodeType template sortOrder createDate updateDate nodeName urlName writerName creatorName nodeTypeAlias path allowComments featuredImageUrl postAuthor postContent postPublishedDate postTags wordPressId _NodeId _IndexType _Path _NodeTypeAlias _Key _Icon _RawpostContent

IN PROD:

id nodeName nodeTypeAlias parentID postTags postContent _NodeId _IndexType _Path _NodeTypeAlias _Key _Icon _RawpostContent

Again, the examine config files are exactly the same.

When I look at the /AppData/TEMP/ExamineIndexes/External/Index directory, there are massive differences.

IN DEV, there are 55 files. 53 begin with _3 and are TVX, FDT, FDX, FNM, FRQ, etc files 2 are the segments files.

IN PROD, there are 3 files. 0.cfs segments.gen segments2

I"m not sure what other info you would need.

Is there ANY reason why the environments would create vastly different indexes? The code files are exactly the same. An exact copy of the entire directory from DEV to PROD, including bin. I've tried deleting the External index directory and it is always created the same way with the same 3 files.

Thanks if advance!

Trent