An error has occurred while searching when running Wikibase without Elasticsearch

[persona0591]

Hi all,

I'm trying to run Wikibase using the (full) docker-compose.yml and docker-compose.extra.yml example files. This is working perfectly.

However, I don't want to run Elasticsearch. Therefore I've removed the relevant service in docker-compose.extra.yml and the relevant part of extra-install.sh.

If I now start Wikibase, add a new item and then search for this item using MediaWiki's search box, the following error is displayed:

An error has occurred while searching: We could not complete your search due to a temporary problem. Please try again later.

I'm not sure what the cause of this error is. Could it be that Wikibase assumes Elasticsearch is running? If so, how can I change this behavior?

Thank you :)

[ross-spencer]

Hi George,

I had the same problem recently and was scratching my head as I thought I had the same config as another server not running Elasticsearch but I found a couple of extra lines of configuration and commented those out too.

I have copied my config here if it helps you find what you need:

• https://gist.github.com/ross-spencer/26ee9b999d9e36dcdfca90c107562577

Once the config was in place, IIRC running sudo docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.extra.yml up -d --force-recreate was enough to fix things for me.

My config might be a little out of date now, I haven't been able to follow the changes in this repo, but hopefully they haven't diverged too much.

[persona0591]

Hi @ross-spencer,

Wow! Your config is indeed a little out of date, but I can clearly see why you've managed to disable Elasticsearch: in docker-compose-extra.yml you've commented the lines with the Elasticsearch environment variables:

https://gist.github.com/ross-spencer/26ee9b999d9e36dcdfca90c107562577#file-docker-compose-extra-yml-L9-L10

I've just tried the same in the new docker-compose-extra.yml config - and it works: I can use Wikibase's search functionality again.

Problem solved - although this perhaps could be documented a bit better in the example files :)

Thank you very much!

[ross-spencer]

Nice, thanks @persona0591, glad it worked! +1 on inspiration for docs. I have a related hope for the docs for a recommendation on Elastic vs. Cirrus and use-cases. It's interesting that Cirrus can satisfy some requirements and should also reduce maintenance complexity.

[toban]

Hello,

I've added PR to make this a bit more clear in the template

#299

Thanks @ross-spencer for helping out! 💯

[persona0591]

Thank you, @toban!

[versant2612]

I've tried this solution to disable the application search error but it didn't worked.

My extra-install.sh file is a directory ?!?!?!?!?!?!

[toban]

I've tried this solution to disable the application search error but it didn't worked.

My extra-install.sh file is a directory ?!?!?!?!?!?!

Hey, this sounds like the extra-install.sh file might not have been mounted correctly. From my experience if the extra-install.sh file is mounted as a directory this probably means the file does not exist on the host machine and docker therefore creates it as a folder instead.

[versant2612]

@toban I copied the extra-install.sh from example directory to the installation directory and tried again. But it didn't solved. I do want to use Elastic Search.

[toban]

@toban I copied the extra-install.sh from example directory to the installation directory and tried again. But it didn't solved. I do want to use Elastic Search.

The extra-install.sh script is by default located in the same directory as the docker-compose.yml and docker-compose.extra.yml files.

If you check it's mounted by the docker-compose.extra.yml file like this
https://github.com/wmde/wikibase-release-pipeline/blob/main/example/docker-compose.extra.yml#L13

 wikibase:
    volumes:
      - quickstatements-data:/quickstatements/data
      - ./extra-install.sh:/extra-install.sh

Could you describe the problem you are having a bit more in detail with some logs and maybe explain what your installation directory contains I think we get get it working.

[toban]

@toban I copied the extra-install.sh from example directory to the installation directory and tried again. But it didn't solved. I do want to use Elastic Search.

The extra-install.sh script is by default located in the same directory as the docker-compose.yml and docker-compose.extra.yml files.

If you check it's mounted by the docker-compose.extra.yml file like this https://github.com/wmde/wikibase-release-pipeline/blob/main/example/docker-compose.extra.yml#L13

 wikibase:
    volumes:
      - quickstatements-data:/quickstatements/data
      - ./extra-install.sh:/extra-install.sh

Could you describe the problem you are having a bit more in detail with some logs and maybe explain what your installation directory contains I think we get get it working.

sorry just realized you have another issue open, lets continue in there.