notanumber/xapian-haystack — Issue #87: Failure to create index when no data is available
Author: whitehat2k9
Created: 2012-01-02 03:08:00+00:00
State: open

On a fresh installation, Haystack+Xapian fails to create an index (manage.py update_index rebuild_index do nothing) on a fresh install without any data. This causes the webserver to throw an HTTP 500 error:
InvalidIndexError: Unable to open index at /var/www/html/myproject/search_index

Refiled in response to https://github.com/toastdriven/django-haystack/issues/473