FlexSearch configuration to honor canonifyURL?

[Aman-Aalam]

Hi Team,

Huge thanks for all the help, because of which I am now about to deploy my site live.

But I am using canonifyURLS = true because I am deploying under a subfolder.
Everything works well except the search, where the post URLs are still relative and hence they resolve with the base URL and no canonified URL.

I see Hinode uses Flex Search, is there a setting where I can configure this, or fix this?

[markdumay]

I have released mod-flexsearch v1.10.0 that includes a new configuration option. Upgrade your module reference to mod-flexsearch to this version and add the following configuration to your site configuration (e.g. hugo.toml):

[params.modules.flexsearch]
    canonifyURLs = true

In this mode, the search index will use absolute URLs instead of relative URLs. Hopefully this will resolve your issue.

[Aman-Aalam]

Great, thanks!
I manually added this new module and the search is working fine now.

One last question, how do I exclude a page from search?
With the new version, all files in the content folder are included while in the older one (1.8.1) contents only in the posts folder seemed to be indexed.

Will all this end up in the documentation (if not already) ?

[markdumay]

You can exclude individual pages from the search index by adding the following setting to the page's frontmatter:

---
searchExclude: true
---

The flex search options are documented in the mod-flexsearch repo. They are not included in the main docs yet...

[Aman-Aalam]

Perfect.
That worked!

Would you mind if I did a PR on the docs repo for Search related documentation?

[markdumay]

Would you mind if I did a PR on the docs repo for Search related documentation?

That would be great!