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DEPRECATED: This module is deprecated in favor of https://github.com/swissup/module-search-mysql-legacy if you still need a search and in favor of https://github.com/zepgram/module-disable-search-engine if you do not need any searcht at all.

A module that removes both MySQL and ElasticSearch from Magento. This is experimental and might not be perfect. Note that this module is supposed to hack things in your Magento site. If you are experiencing problems, feel free to open up an Issue on GitHub. But please take note that this module is something built for experienced developers, it takes a developers mind to properly troubleshoot things.

Installation via composer

Installation of this module by copying things to app/code will not work: The composer replace will not be applied and the original namespaces Magento\Search and Magento\CatalogSearch will not be remapped to this extension. It does not work. Use composer instead.

Instead, copy the extension to some kind of other folder in your Magento root, like package-source, and use this folder as a composer repository:

mkdir package-source/
cd package-source/
git clone git@github.com:yireo/Yireo_RemoveSearch.git
cd -
composer config repositories.yireo-removesearch path package-source/Yireo_RemoveSearch

First, register this module in your composer.json file:

composer require yireo/magento2-remove-search --no-update

Next, open up the composer.json file and add the following manually to your configuration:

"replace": {
    "magento/module-advanced-search": "*",
    "magento/module-catalog-search": "*",
    "magento/module-elasticsearch": "*",
    "magento/module-elasticsearch-6": "*",
    "magento/module-elasticsearch-7": "*",
    "magento/module-inventory-catalog-search": "*",
    "magento/module-inventory-elasticsearch": "*",
    "magento/module-search": "*",
    "elasticsearch/elasticsearch": "*"
}

Next, run:

composer update

Unforunately, this might work or it might not. If this fails, do the following (and beware of its consequences):

rm -r vendor/ composer.lock
composer install

Please note that a simple composer require yireo/magento2-remove-search will not work. Please also note that removing the vendor/ and composer.lock might not be best practices, but this is the only known workaround to get the composer replace trick working. If you don't like it, because it does not comply to standard procedures, don't use this solution.

After this, make sure to enable the module:

bin/magento module:enable Yireo_RemoveSearch
rm -r generated/
bin/magento cache:flush

Make sure your cache is properly wiped. Or wipe your Magento cache folder (rm -r var/cache). Or wipe Redis (redis-cli flushall). Or something.

Testing if it works

To test if things are working, make sure to play around with the following commands - they should just happen with PHP Fatal Errors:

bin/magento setup:upgrade
bin/magento setup:di:compile

Additionally:

• composer show | grep -i search should output some packages, but no longer the Magento 2 modules for search