How to enable Search in Seafile CE? (was: File History not Available in seahub (docker, 8.0.3))

#1

Hi,

i am using seafile docker 8.0.3 behind an additional nginx reverse proxy to bind also other docker containers to port 80/443

When i want to see a file history in seahub…

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I get the following Errormessage in the Webbrowser:

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when i looked at seahub.log i saw the following errormessage:

2021-02-16 10:45:18,178 [ERROR] django.request:228 log_response Internal Server Error: /repo/file_revisions/ae164057-8cc4-4c3c-82de-2858e7d0df7c/
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/opt/seafile/seafile-server-8.0.3/seahub/thirdpart/django/core/handlers/exception.py”, line 34, in inner
response = get_response(request)
File “/opt/seafile/seafile-server-8.0.3/seahub/thirdpart/django/core/handlers/base.py”, line 115, in _get_response
response = self.process_exception_by_middleware(e, request)
File “/opt/seafile/seafile-server-8.0.3/seahub/thirdpart/django/core/handlers/base.py”, line 113, in _get_response
response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
File “/opt/seafile/seafile-server-8.0.3/seahub/seahub/auth/decorators.py”, line 27, in _wrapped_view
return view_func(request, *args, **kwargs)
File “/opt/seafile/seafile-server-8.0.3/seahub/seahub/views/init.py”, line 779, in file_revisions
suffix_list = seafevents_api.get_file_history_suffix()
AttributeError: ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘get_file_history_suffix’

I also tried to downgrade back to 7.1.5 - but that had no effect to this problem.

Can anyone confirm this bug or tell me what i have to change to avoid this problem?

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#2

Has anyone any ideas how this could happen in the docker version? I didn’t touch the container - and the reverse proxy in front of the container should also be no problem because i get the request in the container as i see in the logs.
Any idea anybody?

#3

Hello together,

i investigated further. When i searched for “get_file_history_suffix” in this forum i found this thread, which told me to remove the file seafevents.conf from the conf folder.
I added this file because i wanted to enable search in my Seafile CE server - and i did like here described for the PRO version because i found no other place wher enabling the search functionality was explained.
After i removed the seafevents.conf file i was again able to see the history of my files. but i could not search anymore.
Can anyone explain how to enable search in CE without loosing the ability to see the file history? Is there somewhere a manual which i did not find until yet?

Content of my seafevents.conf file is:

[INDEX FILES]
external_es_server = true
es_host = elasticsearch
es_port = 9200
## must be “true” to enable search
enabled = true

## The interval the search index is updated. Can be s(seconds), m(minutes), h(hours), d(days)
interval=1d

## If true, indexes the contents of office/pdf files while updating search index
## Note: If you change this option from “false” to “true”, then you need to clear the search index and update the index again.
index_office_pdf=true

#4

I was just dumb and didn’t understand that the Search in SeafileCE is only a search for filenames and not an indexed search over all documents. So Elasticsearch is not needed - seafevents.conf is not needed and when i am inside a library i can also search - i tried to search over all libraries which does not work. All my fault. Thanks Seafile Team for this great peace of software!

Seafile server 8.0.3 is ready!
Seafile server 8.0.3 is ready!