You no longer need to follow the instructions below, you can use the new tool on Magento Connect instead. Please note. This article applies to Magento 1.4 and greater only. A lot of people are starting to find that with large catalogues that the new indexing manager in Magento 1.4 may be starting to time out when generating Catalog Search Index – Rebuild Catalog product fulltext search index. This usually results in a blank screen when refreshing indexes or a index timeout error This is largely due to a number of factors: the number of products in a catalogue the number of store views the apache/lighttpd timeout setting the php.ini maximum execution time & script input time an already inflated catalogsearch_fulltext MySQL table the lock file is still place from the previous time it ran preventing it running again To remedy this issue, you’ll need to know a few facts. … Continue reading →