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Published Jul. 2, 2025

After upgrading to Liferay DXP 7.X, Searches are not returning any results

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Michael Warren Young

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Issue

  • After upgrading to Liferay DXP, we are not able to perform successful searches.
  • For example, when searching for Web Content articles that exist, no results are returned

Environment

  • Liferay DXP upgraded from a previous version of DXP or Portal

Resolution

  • During the upgrade, one of the steps is to set the below property so that there is no indexing performed during the upgrade:
indexReadOnly=true
  • If this property is not removed after the upgrade, searching will not function.
  • This is because the index is still set to "Read Only," but nothing has been added to the index yet.
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