SSH (SHELL) Reindex Magento 2

Reindexing Magento 2 Tables Using Shell

In this tutorial, I will show you how easy it is to reindex Magento 2 using the command line. For the purposes of this tutorial, we will be reindexing Magento’s New Index Management tables. Let’s begin.

Go ahead and SSH into the site where your Magento 2 installation resides. Once successfully logged into Shell, you can run the following command to shell into the folder where our indexer resides.

cd /home/yourusername/public_html/dev/shell

Now that we are in the folder which contains our indexing script, we will go over the usage for our indexing.

Usage:  php -f newindexer.php -- [options]
--status                                     Show Indexer(s) Status
--mode                                       Show Indexer(s) Index Mode
--mode-realtime                              Set index mode type "Update on Save"
--mode-schedule                              Set index mode type "Update by Schedule"
--reindex                                    Reindex Data
info                                         Show allowed indexers
reindexall                                   Reindex Data by all indexers
help                                         This help

So, now that we know what the usage for our Magento 2 indexer file is, let’s check the status of our indexer.

php newindexer.php --status

This will tell us if any of our tables needs reindexing.

Finally, let’s reindex all of our New Index Management tables by running the following code.

php newindexer.php reindexall

I really hope this has helped you to better understand how to reindex Magento’s tables in the Magento 2 version. If you enjoyed this tutorial and would like to see more post regarding Magento 2, please leave a comment below.