Magento2: Unable to reindex from backend, bug?

Created on 18 Dec 2014  Â·  25Comments  Â·  Source: magento/magento2

There is no way to reindex from backend. Whatever you do it says: Reindex Required.
But using command line works fine:
php dev/shell/indexer.php reindexall

Fixed in 2.4.x Format is not valid bug report
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+1 having the ability to re-index from the admin

picture titechnologies on 19 Apr 2016
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It's not bug, now all indexers work by crontab therefore you should configure your crontab to run script ./pub/cron.php every minute

Sanuch picture Sanuch on 18 Dec 2014

Not everyone has cron installed, we should still have the 'refresh' option. Assigning to Sergii and creating internal ticket.

choukalos picture choukalos on 18 Dec 2014

+1. Would be great have ability to force-reindex something, also would be great make reindex for specific store views

ihor-sviziev picture ihor-sviziev on 18 Dec 2014

This behavior is as expected by design.

Indexing has become a background operation with automatic consideration for partial or full re-indexing.

Documentation will be updated with details about asynchronous admin functions.

WilliamAtMagento picture WilliamAtMagento on 26 Jan 2015

Just for the record, I came across http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v1.0/config-guide/cli/config-cli-subcommands-cron.html which describes how to run 'magento cron:run' from the command line to rebuild indexes (because there is no button in the Admin UI). The trick I did not realize immediately was you have to run it more than once to schedule the work then do the work (something like that). For me developing on Windows, crontab was not an option.

alankent picture alankent on 20 Jul 2015

I understand this is by design but I'm going to +1 on having the ability to re-index from the admin - maybe make it a hidden option for admins only or something.

jayelkaake picture jayelkaake on 21 Nov 2015

+1 here too. Maybe not best practice, but I do it enough manually that it's
an annoyance. But if I need to have a less-technical colleague with admin
access to run it, then they need to wait. Admin option would be nice.

On Saturday, November 21, 2015, Jay El-Kaake [email protected]
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I understand this is by design but I'm going to +1 on having the ability
to re-index from the admin - maybe make it a hidden option for admins only
or something.

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krlecarp picture krlecarp on 21 Nov 2015

+1 here to on having the ability to re-index from the admin.

Vincentguo1990 picture Vincentguo1990 on 22 Nov 2015

You can use magento indexer:reindex at any time. http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.0/config-guide/cli/config-cli-subcommands-index.html#config-cli-subcommands-index-reindex

ghost picture ghost on 23 Nov 2015

@xcomSteveJohnson Of course :smile: - we're just +1-ing for an admin UI for it so that we don't have to SSH into our clients' sites when we want to rebuild the indexes.

jayelkaake picture jayelkaake on 23 Nov 2015

Hi, I am unable to reindex through SSH. I can see below result.
root@ubuntuserver:/var/www/html/test# magento indexer:show-mode
magento: command not found

Please help me how do I reindex.

KrishnaPB picture KrishnaPB on 30 Nov 2015

Try to type following command:
./bin/magento indexer:show-mode
On Nov 30, 2015 07:06, "KrishnaPB" [email protected] wrote:

Hi, I am unable to reindex through SSH. I can see below result.
root@ubuntuserver:/var/www/html/test# magento indexer:show-mode
magento: command not found

Please help me how do I reindex.

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ihor-sviziev picture ihor-sviziev on 30 Nov 2015

Thank you. but I got below error now:

root@ubuntuserver:/var/www/html/test/bin# ./magento indexer:show-mode
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib/php5/20131226/php_xsl.dll' - /usr/lib/php5/20131226/php_xsl.dll: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0

I have installed the module xsl still I am getting above error. Please help me on this.

KrishnaPB picture KrishnaPB on 30 Nov 2015

KrishnaPB,
looks like you have some issues with php env, it's not related to Magento.
You used library for windows on Linux machine, as result it doesn't work.
Try revert your changes and install them with following command:

sudo apt-get install php5-xls

ihor-sviziev picture ihor-sviziev on 30 Nov 2015

Thank you very much. i will check it out

KrishnaPB picture KrishnaPB on 30 Nov 2015

I want to know how cron works? How can I run it to reindex data?

zoneradx picture zoneradx on 22 Dec 2015

+1 having the ability to re-index from the admin

titechnologies picture titechnologies on 19 Apr 2016
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+1 having the ability to re-index from the admin

JuliaGosling picture JuliaGosling on 5 Aug 2016

+1 having the ability to re-index from admin. Unless someone can explain the advantage to have to run cron jobs or CLI every single time.

Ctucker9233 picture Ctucker9233 on 6 Aug 2016

+1 to re-index from Admin

femorais picture femorais on 3 Sep 2016

I force reindex from admin panel with such steps:

  1. Go to Index Managment at admin panel.
  2. Switch all actions to Update on Save.
  3. Switch all actions back to Update by Schedule.
serzhik picture serzhik on 13 Sep 2016

@alankent Even from scheduled CLI, reindex is still partial from queue generated by saves.
You can force full rebuild by some fundamental changes in setting (bad workaround). But you can't force full rebuild by command.

Am I right?

There is lot of cases where we need to rebuild in development process (if you have broken eg url rewrites, prices, etc.). This is our developer experience.

magexo picture magexo on 27 Sep 2016

For those who are interested in reindexing from the backend: https://github.com/digitalpianism/reindex

But again as William said: "Indexing has become a background operation with automatic consideration for partial or full re-indexing" so don't use this module if you have SSH access as you will run into a lot of problems with your store if you do not have Magento's cron scheduler set up and running as intended.

digitalpianism picture digitalpianism on 3 Oct 2016

Hi @MagePsycho. Thank you for your report.
The issue has been fixed in magento/magento2#28366 by @Nazar65 in 2.4-develop branch
Related commit(s):

The fix will be available with the upcoming 2.4.1 release.

magento-engcom-team picture magento-engcom-team on 16 Jul 2020

Looks not related to this issue

On Thu, 16 Jul 2020 at 03:50, Magento Community Engineering <
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Hi @MagePsycho https://github.com/MagePsycho. Thank you for your report.
The issue has been fixed in #28366
https://github.com/magento/magento2/pull/28366 by @Nazar65
https://github.com/Nazar65 in 2.4-develop branch
Related commit(s):

The fix will be available with the upcoming 2.4.1 release.

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