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Asked: 2026-05-20T14:26:59+00:00

Following the instructions in this SDN document (PDF) , I added a custom Lucene

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Following the instructions in this SDN document (PDF), I added a custom Lucene index to a Sitecore 6.3 website (or so I thought):

  • In the <indexes> section in web.config, I added my index definition:
<indexes>
  ...
  <index id="website" singleInstance="true" type="Sitecore.Data.Indexing.Index, Sitecore.Kernel">
    <param desc="name">$(id)</param>
    <fields hint="raw:AddField">
      <field target="created">__created</field>
      <field target="name">@name</field>
      <field target="body">body</field>
      <field target="template" storage="keyword">@tid</field>
      <field target="id" storage="unindexed">@id</field>
    </fields>
  </index>
</indexes>
  • I added the index to the master database:
<database id="master" ...>
  ...
  <indexes hint="list:AddIndex">
    ...
    <index path="indexes/index[@id='website']" />
  </indexes>
</database>
  • Since the master database already has HistoryEngine set up (by default), I did not make any additional configuration changes.

I can verify that the system index is getting populated correctly, as the search application in the Sitecore Desktop is able to find items, and the ~/Data/indexes/master/system directory is chock full of Lucene index files.

However, although the ~/Data/indexes/master/website directory was created automatically, there are no index files in it, and attempting to perform a search in my sublayout results in the following System.IO.FileNotFoundException (path abbreviated for simplicity):

no segments* file found in Sitecore.Data.Indexing.FSDirectory@~/Data/indexes/master/website: files:

What additional changes do I need to make to get Sitecore to recognize the new index?

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  1. Editorial Team

    After doing more some experimentation/research, I discovered that there was actually no additional configuration necessary.

    Following the instructions in this blog post, I simply rebuilt the search index for the master database, and everything started working!

    I will have to keep an eye on it, though; I thought the search index would be updated automatically every 5 minutes (based on the value of the Indexing.UpdateInterval setting).

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