Course discovery not working

[mor...@appsembler.com]

We're having issues getting the search to work on the /courses page. I've tried setting the following options in both lms.env.json and lms/envs/common.py:

ENABLE_COURSEWARE_INDEX: True
ENABLE_LIBRARY_INDEX: True
ENABLE_COURSEWARE_SEARCH: True
ENABLE_DASHBOARD_SEARCH: True
ENABLE_COURSE_DISCOVERY: True

When I search on the /courses page, lms-stderr.log shows the following, so I know the the LMS can talk to elasticsearch:

2015-11-19 16:13:35,993 INFO 3172 [urllib3.connectionpool] connectionpool.py:207 - Starting new HTTP connection (1): elasticsearch
2015-11-19 16:13:35,997 INFO 3172 [elasticsearch] base.py:49 - HEAD http://elasticsearch:9200/courseware_index [status:200 request:0.005s]
2015-11-19 16:13:36,005 INFO 3172 [elasticsearch] base.py:49 - GET http://elasticsearch:9200/courseware_index/course_info/_search?from=0&size=20 [status:200 request:0.008s]

I've tried reindexing courses in the CMS and making sure that the courses are open for enrollment. Also, search on the /dashboard page does work, so I know that elasticsearch is working.

Other people seem to have had similar issues:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/openedx-ops/Xkp5I1Yu6b0/CZFY944ABAAJ

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/edx-code/elastic$20search/edx-code/5YQtcMsAKzA/rbwzbFek4nwJ

Is there anything we need to do besides setting these flags and reindexing the courses?

Thanks,

Morgan

[Dino Cikatic]

Hi Morgan,

I'm not exactly sure what is causing your problem, because it seems like ES and edx-search app are running properly for you. What might help is giving me an exact version of the platform you are running and example of a POST request that works and fails.

Although, only way I could replicate issue similar to yours is if my courses had invalid (passed) enrollment dates.
You can set course discovery to ignore these by setting:
SEARCH_SKIP_ENROLLMENT_START_DATE_FILTERING = True

Please see if that helps.

Thanks,
Dino

[LIubov Fomicheva]

Great catch, Dino!

  I was wondering why some courses are now showed when course discovery is on, but had not time to investigate. This behaviour seems a bit confusing because all courses are shown for staff members when course discovery is off, but some of them disappear when this feature is on.

Thanks for your explanation,

  Liubov