Search facility not working


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By BubbleCS - Thu 14 Jan 2016
We have a client who’s website is running on Kartris and it is having problems with the Search facility, it just doesn’t work. We did not build this site for them so I can not say if this has always been a problem. If you try to search for something, it returns no results at all. Is there a way to fix this? Any suggestions of things to check or test would be most welcome.
By Paul - Thu 14 Jan 2016
Most likely they have tried to activate the FTS in the back end from the db admin section, but it is not supported on their SQL database.

Would suggest checking if it is enabled and if so, turning it off. Also confirm that the fts config setting in the back end is also off.
By BubbleCS - Wed 27 Jan 2016
Thank you for your response. I have now been able to check and the FTS is enabled in the admin area of the website. To disable this feature, do I click the button that says 'Delete'? I'm a little wary of just going ahead and clicking something that says Delete!
By Paul - Thu 28 Jan 2016
Yes, delete should delete the full text catalogs and change the config setting for fts back to 'n' so the normal SQL search is used.
By BubbleCS - Tue 2 Feb 2016
Thanks again for getting back to me. I tried pressing 'Delete' but nothing then actually happened. So as another way to look at it I had a look at the setting in the Database and while the website admin area is saying FTS is enabled, the Database line for 'general.fts.enabled' is 'n' which would suggest that it is not enabled.

Have you ever seen this conflict before?