Title: Can't index
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Can't index

 *  [Ron Strilaeff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ronstrilaeff/)
 * (@ronstrilaeff)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-index/)
 * Everytime I press the blue “save settings and build index” button or teh big 
   green “build index” button, after about a minute I get the error
 *     ```
       Internal Server Error
       The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request  ....
       More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
       ```
   
 * I have roughly 11,000 posts and 157,000 term relationships (mostly custom taxonomies).
   Is that too much for this plugin?
 * The standard answer is “check the server logs”. Is that apache or php or something
   created by this plugin and where exactly do I look for that? And what would I
   look for once I find that log file?
 * Thanks, Ron
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/relevanssi/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/relevanssi/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Mikko Saari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msaari/)
 * (@msaari)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-index/#post-3892793)
 * Server error logs are generated by your web server. I think they’re usually in/
   etc/logs or something like that, but I suppose that can change, depending on 
   your setup. Anyway, there might be a helpful error message.
 * However, you could try this. Find this row in lib/indexing.php in the Relevanssi
   plugin folder:
 * `function relevanssi_build_index($extend = false) {`
 * And add this line right after it:
 * `wp_suspend_cache_addition(true);`
 * Then try to index. Might make a world of difference. 11 000 posts is quite a 
   bit, but should not be too much – but a lot depends of course from the capabilities
   of your server.
 *  Thread Starter [Ron Strilaeff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ronstrilaeff/)
 * (@ronstrilaeff)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-index/#post-3892885)
 * Mikko,
 * I’m sure this is a great plugin for many people and you really are giving outstanding
   support. However, as I usually discover with big plugins like this, they are 
   usually overkill for what I want to do and I end up adding a function/filter/
   action hook to my child theme’s functions.php file or modifying a much simpler
   plugin to get the results I need. So I’m choosing NOT to use this plugin and 
   would really like an clean uninstall utility that completely removes all traces
   of options, metadata, database tables, files, etc. No offense, but it’s just 
   not right for me.
 * I think I’m really good at creating or revealing bugs or incompatibilities among
   plugins. 🙂 So, for what it’s worth, I re-activated the plugin, (without the 
   mod you suggested above) saved the settings (using minimal indexing) and then
   pressed the big green “Build the index” button. Well, it completed (after about
   a minute) with no errors but even after refreshing the settings page, there are
   no values in the “state of the index” section and there were no database tables
   created. Weird huh? So I obviously broke something.
 * I hope my feed back helps you be even more successful!
 *  Plugin Author [Mikko Saari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msaari/)
 * (@msaari)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-index/#post-3892930)
 * Relevanssi has a clean uninstall. Uninstall it using the WP uninstall feature,
   and everything should be gone.

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 * Last reply from: [Mikko Saari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msaari/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-index/#post-3892930)
 * Status: not resolved