Typo3 8.7.8: indexed_search ignores TYPO3SEARCH_begin

Question

I am using indexed_search and I have the problem that the WHOLE SITE is crawled - including the navigation. So if I search for a word which is part of the main navigation all sites are displayed in the result.

I have added <--TYPO3SEARCH_begin--> and <--TYPO3SEARCH_end--> in my template - and these markers are included in the HTML output correctly. The markers do not surround the navigation, of course.

I am using:

Typo3: 8.7.8
tx_indexed_search 8.7.9
site_crawler 6.1.1

Answer 1

I have found out what cost me several hours... It's unbelievable what happened to me. I copied the <--TYPO3SEARCH_begin--> pattern from a tutorial. Today I looked at the code again - and now I noticed, that the pattern was not colored in green in my IDE - like all the other HTML comments. Hmmm...

Finally I found out that these are not the same:

<–-TYPO3SEARCH_begin-–>
<--TYPO3SEARCH_begin-->

The first line has a dash (minus) symbol which is not the standard character, but some odd UTF-8 sign. (Hex 93).

Don't know where I copied the pattern from, but that guy must have a strange kind of humor

Answer 2

Try adding <--TYPO3SEARCH_end--> and the very beginning of the document. Thus everything is ignored until the begin marker.