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FIGURE 1 - A fatal error at startup

Rebuilding the Search Index

The search index of VIVO is used not just for full text search but also for the menu pages and index pages. If the system is not displaying the individuals that you would expect to see, the search index may need to be rebuilt. To rebuild the index log in as an administrative user and request

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1. Log into VIVO as an administrator, go to Site Admin -> SPARQL query.

2. Clear all of the text from the text area, enter the following query in the text area:

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   SELECT str( ?a ) WHERE { ?_ <http://vitro.mannlib.cornell.edu/ns/vitro/0.7#rootTab> ?a }

3. Scroll down and click “Run Query” and you should get a result like this:

4. To get the default namespace from the result, take everything in quotes up to and including the last forward slash. In this case the default namespace is *

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   http://usertesting.mannlib.cornell.edu/individual/

   *

5. If you do not have a default namespace that matches the domain name where your VIVO application is installed, you can use the “Change Namespace of Resources” option under Site Admin – Ingest Tools to correct it. If you just change your configuration in runtime.properties, VIVO will not run correctly. Once you’ve made the change in the SiteAdmin, you will need to change it in runtime.properties, re-deploy and restart tomcat.

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