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    Make some updates to search indexing documentation.

    Review Request #9348 — Created Nov. 6, 2017 and submitted

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    This change updates our docs for search indexing to talk about
    Elasticsearch and on-the-fly indexing.

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    This should mention that the directory and file must be writable by the web server. Worth also recommending putting this …

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    We have a hard requirement on Elasticsearch < 5.0. This is a limitation in Django-Haystack due to some non-trivial breakages …

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    This will most likely need to be done as the web server user, specifically, in order to avoid permission issues.

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    2. docs/manual/admin/sites/search-indexing.rst (Diff revision 1)
       
       
       
       
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      This should mention that the directory and file must be writable by the web server.

      Worth also recommending putting this under the data/ directory, which satisfies those requirements.

    3. docs/manual/admin/sites/search-indexing.rst (Diff revision 1)
       
       
       
       
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      We have a hard requirement on Elasticsearch < 5.0. This is a limitation in Django-Haystack due to some non-trivial breakages in Elasticsearch 5. I'm on a thread for this, and no sufficient progress has been made yet, unfortunately...

      Anyway, this will be crucial to spell out in the docs, or it'll bite people.

    4. docs/manual/admin/sites/search-indexing.rst (Diff revision 1)
       
       
       
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      This will most likely need to be done as the web server user, specifically, in order to avoid permission issues.

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    Pushed to release-3.0.x (7ff6796)