Forums Breaking Issue

Introduction

In your edx site if you are having issues regarding searching or getting an error in your Elasticsearch like below.

File "/edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/edx-search/search/elastic.py", line 363, in index

    self._check_mappings(doc_type, source)

  File "/edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/edx-search/search/elastic.py", line 338, in _check_mappings

    for field, value in body.items()

  File "/edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/edx-search/search/elastic.py", line 339, in <dictcomp>

    if (field not in exclude_fields) and (field not in self._get_mappings(doc_type).get('properties', {}))

  File "/edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/edx-search/search/elastic.py", line 254, in _get_mappings

    doc_type=doc_type,

  File "/edx/app/edxapp/venvs/edxapp/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/elasticsearch/client/utils.py", line 69, in _wrapped

    return func(*args, params=params, **kwargs)

  File "/edx/app/edxapp/venvs/edxapp/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/elasticsearch/client/indices.py", line 313, in get_mapping

    '_mapping', doc_type), params=params)

This issue is caused by Elasticsearch.

Solution

The solution to this problem is to check your Elasticsearch configuration and if you are using the default configuration just try to restart the Elasticsearch with the help of below command.

sudo service Elasticsearch restart