Search is broken

[craddm]

Description

The search box doesn't work.

Expected behaviour

Typing in the search box should produce results instantly under the search box, with links to relevant website pages - see the [hugo-book demo](https://hugo-book-demo.netlify.app/ for an example

Actual behaviour

Nothing happens when you type in the search box.

It appears the search never finds anything. On the main branch of hugo-book, the search seems to work slightly differently from the v9 release, which our site is based on, in that it seems to generate a search index on first use of the search box. I tried updating the code locally, but it didn't seem to help.

May be related to a reported issue here, which is marked as closed, in which flexsearch ignores the base URL and can't handle search when the site is in a subdirectory. I tried the suggested fixes locally, but they didn't seem to work.

Screenshots

How to reproduce

Type anything in the search box.

Your personal setup

• OS: MacOS 12.6.3
• Hugo version: hugo v0.111.1+extended darwin/arm64
• Logs

Tested on Chrome and Safari, on desktop and mobile browsers.

[JimMadge]

It works locally (and not on GitHub pages) for me, where BaseURL is http://localhost:1313/REG-handbook/.

The BaseURL in the config, for the production site, looks correct to me.

[edwardchalstrey1]

just noticed this also

[craddm]

Seems to be working now!

[JimMadge]

Fixed itself 😕 . Maybe a Hugo update.