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I have an issue with pages not being returned by search in a public-facing publishing site collection on a production SP2013 (on-prem) farm. The site collection uses managed metadata navigation, and the problem appears to affect all pages that have a friendly URL assigned to them. Because the majority of pages in the site collection have the 'Hide physical URLs from search' page property ticked this results in the pages not being returned in searched results at all.

When I check the crawl logs the pages' structural URLs are being crawled, but not the friendly URLs. I'm not seeing a lot of errors in the crawl logs, and the only search errors I can find in the ULS logs are SSL warnings.

The issue is only occurring in the production farm. In the staging farm, both the structural and friendly URLs are crawled, and friendly URLs are returned in search results.

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  • How is the Content Source for Production set up? Are you using Https only or http also? If there is a problem with SSL in production then it could very well be blocking the search crawl account from accessing and indexing the site
    – Chris Odegard
    Jan 28, 2019 at 16:48
  • Yep, the production farm uses HTTPS. The pages missing from search results are being crawled though, just with their structural URLs, not the friendly URLs. I no longer work there, so can't investigate further any more, unfortunately.
    – MerkinMuffley
    Jan 28, 2019 at 20:15

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