Search no longer works after move to main domain

Backlight 4, 5 & 6 Support
#1

I just made my sub-domain development website my main domain production site. I followed the instructions how to move from the sub-domain. All works great except for “Search”. See the error message when trying “Search”:
[https://franzzihlmannphoto.com/backlight/search/]

The subdomain development site Search still works:
[http://FZ-Test.franzzihlmannphoto.com/backlight/search/]

As a background: I developed a completely new website and freshly installed BL3.X on the development subdomain (FZ-Test.franzzihlmannphoto.com). Before the “move to the main domain, I backed-up up the complete subdomain site (FZ-Test.) and the “old” production site (public html) to my DT. Note: I kept my subdomain development site site for for further use.

Why is “Search” broken?

#2

Did you try clicking on the Update Album Files link in the main Backlight dashboard under Special Links?

#3

I just did with no change…

#4

I noticed that the url to the development site (posted above) starts with http but your production site starts with https.

Check your settings to make sure all url settings are correct.

Check the https redirects setting as well

#5

The “Automatically Redirect Browsers To https” was not set to “yes”.
Unfortunately, search is still broken.

#6

I’m out of ideas. Ben will need to take a look.

#7

Thank you, Rod

#8

Hi @Panagon, it looks like you have a directory backlight/search/ on your server which shouldn’t be there. Can you try renaming that to something like search_removed and see whether that fixes it? If it does then it should be safe to delete that search directory entirely.

#9

Thank you Ben, this worked. I have no idea how it got there. Can I delete the “search” folder that I renamed to “search_renamed”?

#10

Hi @Panagon, I’m glad that solved it. Perhaps something left over from Backlight 1?
You should be safe to remove it.

#11

I was running BL-1 before this new website.
Ben, thanks again for the help.