Comments on: Implementing Search in Django Site using HayStack and Xapian / Whoosh

By: Praveen Krishna R

Praveen Krishna R — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:43:32 +0000

Hey,

I was stuck at how to do it on a simple query, now the official document had nothing like, that kind. You saved me!

Thanks alot!

-praveen

By: Kasperasky

Kasperasky — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:41:19 +0000

Hey there . Great post .

I am stuck at setting it up

My settings.py is this
HAYSTACK_SITECONF = ‘/home/satyajit/geodjango/geographic_admin.search_sites’
HAYSTACK_SEARCH_ENGINE = ‘whoosh’
HAYSTACK_WHOOSH_PATH=’/home/satyajit/geodjango/geographic_admin/whoosh_index’

And still I get an error that says this
django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: The HAYSTACK_SITECONF setting is no longer used & can be removed.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 17:50:44 +0000

Thanks for the great post, the documentation is particularly vague about how to go about righting a custom view and your little snippet of code just made it clear to me.

By: Atif Haider

Atif Haider — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:40:29 +0000

Hey, i have followed the above procedure. but when i query for search item it doesn’t return any.

SearchQuerySet().auto_query(‘ploitics’)

It returns empty list. Though the title of my model contains politics term in it.

Can you please help me to sort out this issue?

By: danin

danin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:45:53 +0000

Hi I am new to Django. Right now I am working on one project which need searching functionality. I read your document and it was quite simplified than original document. But I have one query regarding it. Can you please tell me Urls.py. How wil i define url for searching in my urls.py file

By: nitin

nitin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:53:18 +0000

ok cool…
Best of luck with your project.

By: shoeb siafee

shoeb siafee — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:39:28 +0000

hey dear
thank you very much for your quick reply
actually i m a beginner in django.
and my boss gave me task to implement search engine for a website.
so i m just working on that.
i resolved that problem and successfully implemented basic search engine using haystack with whoosh.
now i m just working on with website and trying to the same with the whole website.

By: nitin

nitin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:30:19 +0000

Hi Shoeb,

I have already shared the code used in my views.py ( see Step 7 )

By: shoeb siafee

shoeb siafee — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:45:53 +0000

hey nitin
i have indexed all my databses .
now i m just stuck in how to create a view and template.
can please upload ur sample template ?

By: nitin

nitin — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:05:21 +0000

It may be difficult for me to upload full source, as it has became an integral part of whole project.

In this tutorial I have already covered all the points to be done for implementation.

Even then if you feel problem then feel free to ask the specific query.