Can't get excludeRoutes and includeRoutes to work

[liamhalemccarty]

I've tried every format I can think of, but I can't get excludeRoutes or includeRoutes to work. I've tried:

• With and without a / at the beginning
• With and without a / at the end
• With /**, /**/*, and nothing

Nothing works. I've triple checked that the paths I'm using are correct.

Does someone know what I'm doing wrong? Can you share an example of what format works for you?

Thanks.

[ChrisConleyFC]

I'm having this exact same issue.
docusaurus-lunr-search version: 2.4.2

[ChrisConleyFC]

@liamhalemccarty, we finally had a breakthrough tonight. Like you, we tried everything: slashes, globs, path tweaks, /, no /, etc. Here’s what finally worked concretely, and why:

It does appear that the pathnames are super picky
Try something like this:
excludeRoutes: [
'/docs/hidden-folder/**/',
'/docs/folder-name/markdown-file-name',
'/docs/another-folder/another-individual-md-file*',
],
debug: true,
},

1. The leading slash is mandatory — this is matching against route paths, not file paths.
2. Use the route prefix (/docs/...), even if your Markdown file lives under website/docs. The plugin sees /docs/foo/bar, not docs/foo/bar.md.
3. Don’t use a function for excludeRoutes. We tried that and the plugin crashes with .some is not a function. Only arrays are supported.
4. Use debug: true — this was the only way we confirmed it worked (before checking it on the front end that is):
   docusaurus-lunr-search:: 3 documents were excluded from the search by excludeRoutes config

Hope that helps!