Search not working properly - SP Enterprise 2016

Question

I've created a new SP Enterprise 16 dev environment. I've run a crawl and everything seems to be indexing correctly via central administration. However, things will not populate in the site search, nor will the CSWP provide any results. For example, I have a photo library called "news and announcements photos" and if I change my query to search for images in that library, 0 results will populate. Can anyone give me an idea or references of what might be going on here? Thanks.

Answer 1

With research I found that sometimes this is a problem that occurs when you create a new web application. I ended up having to delete my web application and starting over from scratch and now it works perfectly.

Answer 2

Check crawled items:

• Open Central Administration
• Go to Application Management > Manage Service Applications > Search Service Application
• Navigate to Crawl Log
• Under Content Source you are able to see Successes/Warnings/Errors
• Under Diagnostic
• Select URL View
• To Type a URL of host name, fill it with URL to Library and add "/*" like https://sharepoint16.dev.cz/sites/docs*
• You will see there crawled items and theirs state
• If they are here, crawl is working properly you maybe just have bad query?
  If they arent here or with some error, you should check settings of Crawling/Search Service

Hope it helps!