Search index - failed to initialize index

[MozeBaltyk]

I use : github.com/hbstack/theme-cards and follow the install from scratch. So copy the exampleSite and then started to import the content and the do the basic config.

➜ go version
go version go1.22.2 linux/amd64
➜ hugo version
hugo v0.148.2-40c3d8233d4b123eff74725e5766fc6272f0a84d+extended linux/amd64 BuildDate=2025-07-27T12:43:24Z VendorInfo=gohugoio

in my hugo.yaml:

outputs:
  home:
    - HTML
    - Offline        # required by PWA module for displaying the offline pages.
    - RSS
    - SearchIndex    # required by search module.
    - WebAppManifest # required by PWA module to make your site installable.

then try different thing like this in my params.yaml file:

# see https://hugomods.com/search/configurations/.
search:
  stall_threshold: 300
  min_match_char_length: 3
  case_sensitive: false
  threshold: 0.0
  index_all_pages: true
  index_content: true
  ignore_location: true

looking forward to reading you,

greetings

[MozeBaltyk]

in the public file the search.json is empty

[razonyang]

That's because the search.json is invalid for some reason, cannot figure it out without a sample repo

[MozeBaltyk]

Interesting fact, I have the issue when I run it locally on my WSL ubuntu with the command npm run dev

but it I run it into a container following the dockerfile provided in hbstack doc, search engine is working and all my config problems are solved...

did I miss something ? What thecontainer have more than my os ?

➜  blog> go version
go version go1.22.2 linux/amd64
➜  blog> hugo version
hugo v0.148.2-40c3d8233d4b123eff74725e5766fc6272f0a84d+extended linux/amd64 BuildDate=2025-07-27T12:43:24Z VendorInfo=gohugoio
➜  blog> sass --version
1.66.1

The Hugo version need to be the latest ?

[razonyang]

I have no clue, could you please provide a minimal reproduce repository?

[MozeBaltyk]

here it is : https://github.com/MozeBaltyk/mozebaltyk.github.io

I found something interesting, if I use your dockerfile search index is working fine + all the changes in the config like background or back-to-the-top.

But I just build and server with hugo then my tweak are not taken into account + the search index not working...

if you want to reproduce, I made a Dockerfile.dev :

podman build \
  -t user/my-site:1 \
  --build-arg HUGO_BASEURL=http://localhost:8080 \
  -f Dockerfile.dev

podman run -it -p 1313:1313 --rm localhost/user/my-site:1 hugo server -D

It means also that it's not link with the hugo or dart version... but rather how hugo serve the website. Hope it can help.