Thank you for your help John. It wasn't either of those issues, but it did help me to look through the output and discover that there was a miscellaneous tab character on an empty line that was interfering with the processing of index.yaml.
Thanks! On Dec 29 2009, 3:41 pm, John Gardner <hux...@gmail.com> wrote: > When you start your app and run the search, do you see a message that > says something like: > 2009-12-29 17:58:11,395 dev_appserver_index.py:205] Updating .../ > index.yaml > or do you see one that says > "Detected manual index.yaml, won't update"? > > I have had a problem where the line enders will prevent updates. > Going through subversion, for example, I'll end up with index.yaml > with CRLF line enders on my OSX box, which doesn't seem to work with > the development appserver, and may upload incorrectly as well. > > "dos2unix index.yaml" fixed my problem. > > On Dec 23, 3:01 am, Gayle Laakmann <gay...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Google App Engine is not updating my indexes, either manually or > > automatically. > > > I added this index: > > - kind: ForumPost > > properties: > > - name: visible > > - name: comment_count > > direction: desc > > > But if you go tohttp://www.careercup.com/forum?sort=comments, you'll > > see an error message saying that that index doesn't exist. > > > I also tried adding this to the index.yaml file automatically, but it > > doesn't work either. Here's the start of my index.yaml file: > > > --- BEGIN FILE --- > > indexes: > > > - kind: ForumPost > > properties: > > - name: visible > > - name: comment_count > > direction: desc > > > # AUTOGENERATED > > > [more indexes] > > --- END FILE ---- > > > Also, when I log into the dashboard and click on "Indexes", it's also > > not listed. I'm not sure what else to try to fix this... > > > App ID: careercup -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appeng...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.