Doofinder

Danger

Be very careful using Magento 2 and Doofinder, you can easily clobber the live search results.

Installing the module

Standard installation via composer (if it is not already installed)
Check the manual

Setting up on staging

• You'll need to whitelist the doofinder ip in the public container nginx config and turn cert to optional

  location / {
          allow 54.171.4.216;
      ....
  }
  

server {
    ...
    ssl_verify_client optional;
    ...
    location / {
        ...
    }
}

• Also make sure the allowed domain in doofinder itself is the exact domain and not a wildcard Example: www.magento2.client.developmagento.co.uk instead of *.developmagento.co.uk which will be set by default
• Add the api key which needs to to also be a management key in doofinder config in magento admin
• Add the has ids to each of the store views
• Add the doofinder script layer on each store view as well and make sure it is turned on
• Process the Data source in doofinder itself
• Change the catalog search from MySql to Doofinder in magento admin

Preventing local clobbering live

Doofinder in magento 2 works by sending the data to doofinder rather than the other way round like magento 1. 1. Don't use wildcards in the doofinder security tab such as *.developmagento.co.uk, this does not block the search coming through from desktop. 2. Switch from doofinder to MySQL search

Stores -> Configuration -> Catalog -> Catalog -> Catalog Search -> Search Engine -> MySQL

Something in you sanitise script should be similar to:

UPDATE core_config_data SET value='mysql' WHERE path = 'catalog/search/engine';

3. Make sure doofinder hash ids and API keys are deleted locally

Stores -> Configuration -> Doofinder -> Configuration -> Enabled -> No

Something in you sanitise script should be similar to:

UPDATE core_config_data SET value='' WHERE path LIKE '%doofinder%';

Also drill down to store configurations and set Enabled to No