# Search and Indexing

> Keeping Cascade CMS search working — rebuilding indexes, diagnosing missing results, granting access to Full Search, and the error messages the indexer produces.

URL: https://www.hannonhill.com/cascadecms/latest/articles/cascade-administration/search/index.html
category: Cascade Administration
article-type: concept
content-kind: article
release-availability: all
tags: search
updated: 2026-10-06

Cascade CMS maintains a Lucene search index on the application server. Most search problems trace back to that index — either it hasn't finished building, or the O/S account running Cascade CMS can't write to the directory holding it.

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## Indexing error messages