I'm not sure if this is the right place to pose this technical issue, but I'm writing here because I've been having this problem for almost a month and it hasn't been resolved.

I'm using wikibase for a personal research project and the search function doesn't seem to be working properly.

First of all, I used the docker image file distributed by Wikimedia Germany and deployed it on the Digital Ocean server.

https://github.com/wmde/wikibase-release-pipeline

Afterwards, I imported a backed up XML file that I worked with on my local server. During this process, I referred to this tutorial: https://www.wikibase.consulting/transferring-wikibase-data-between-wikis/

The import itself went well and each Q-item is accessed and displayed by its URL.

The problem is that the search bar is not working, it used to show a preview of all the matches, now it just shows a spinning wheel no matter what you type and then returns "no matches found".

To resolve this issue, I referenced the article below,

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:U04sszz2xwara40g

I set LocalSettings.php to the following settings

wgWBRepoSettings['enableEntitySearchUI'] = false;

$wgResourceModules['wikibase.ui.entitysearch']['scripts'] = [];

But that still didn't solve the problem.

I also deleted the docker volume and reinstalled wikibase to try to fix the problem, but even then the search bar didn't work.

The problem was that the search bar didn't work after I changed the settings in the docker-compose.yml file to the IP address below, as referenced in this tutorial.

https://semlab.io/howto/wikibase_basic

QS_PUBLIC_SCHEME_HOST_AND_PORT=http://167.99.xxx.xxx:9191

wb_public_scheme_host_and_port=http://167.99.xxx.xxx:8181

Nevertheless, I believe the search bar itself should work if you have reinstalled.

I'd be grateful if you've had a similar experience and could help. Many Thanks!