Search is read-only

HTTP 405 · search-read-only — ← all Webpath errors

_search is a control surface, not a writable file.

How to recover. Search with GET /?search=…; rebuild the index with POST /_search?reindex.

Example response

{
  "type": "https://muse.as/a/webpath/errors/search-read-only",
  "title": "Search is read-only",
  "status": 405,
  "detail": "Search with GET /?search=\u2026; rebuild the index with POST /_search?reindex."
}

This page documents the search-read-only error type returned in Webpath RFC 7807 application/problem+json responses. The machine-readable detail field carries a recovery hint you can show a user verbatim — see the Spec §12 and API Reference.