Failure to create index when no data is available

[kz26]

On a fresh installation, Haystack+Xapian fails to create an index (manage.py update_index rebuild_index do nothing) on a fresh install without any data. This causes the webserver to throw an HTTP 500 error:
InvalidIndexError: Unable to open index at /var/www/html/myproject/search_index

Refiled in response to https://github.com/toastdriven/django-haystack/issues/473

[notanumber]

This only happens if you have no data, correct? There are indexes defined, just no data to index, I'm assuming.

[kz26]

Yes, that's correct. Since there's no data I suppose that technically there is no need to create a database, but it would be nice to fail gracefully instead.

[notanumber]

Absolutely. I'll add this as a "nice to have" feature.

[h3]

I had the same problem .. because my client wanted to test his site with a fresh database.

The only workaround I found was to index the django Site app and simply not use it.