How to fix One or more indexers are invalid. Make sure your Magento cron job is running?

Question

I am new to magento platform and I have installed magento on a shared linux server and when I logged into my admin panel I saw this message and I don't know how to set cron jobs on my linux server.

Answer 1

You using terminal and enter command bin/magento indexer:reindex. This command create new index of magento in your database.

You can read more about setup cron job in Magento2 at http://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.0/config-guide/cli/config-cli-subcommands-cron.html

Answer 2

To work with XAMPP installed on Windows,

First redirect to PHP folder in XAMPP by :

cd C:\xampp\php

Then enter following command :

php C:\xampp\htdocs\magento2\bin\magento indexer:reindex

This will help you to remove the error.

Answer 3

when you use wamp in windows7 for magento, you can open the cmd run as administrator and type code below to fix that warning.

C:\wamp\bin\php\php7.0.4>php C:\wamp\www\magento2\bin\magento indexer:reindex

Note: Here, magento2 is project name

Answer 4

C:\xampp\php>php C:\xampp\htdocs\magento2\bin\magento indexer:reindex

run this command ... (magento2 is project name)