Lucene.Net - weird behaviour in different servers - lucene.net

Question

I was writing a search for one of our sites: (SITE A)
BooleanQuery booleanQuery = new BooleanQuery();
foreach (var field in fields)
{
QueryParser qp = new QueryParser(field, new StandardAnalyzer());
Query query = qp.Parse(search.ToLower() + "*");
if (field.Contains("Title")) { query.SetBoost((float)1.8); }
booleanQuery.Add(query, BooleanClause.Occur.SHOULD);
}
// CODE DIFFERENCE IS HERE
Query query2 = new TermQuery(new Term("StateProperties.IsActive", "True"));
booleanQuery.Add(query2, BooleanClause.Occur.MUST);
// END CODE DIFFERENCE
Lucene.Net.Search.TopScoreDocCollector collector = Lucene.Net.Search.TopScoreDocCollector.create(21, true);
searcher.Search(booleanQuery, collector);
hits = collector.TopDocs().scoreDocs;
this was working as expected.
since we own a few sites, and they use the same skeleton,
i uploaded the search to another site ( SITE B )
but the search stopped returning results.
after playing a round a bit with the code, i managed to make it work like so: (showing only the rewriten lines of code)
QueryParser qp2 = new QueryParser("StateProperties.IsActive", new StandardAnalyzer());
Query query2 = qp2.Parse("True");
booleanQuery.Add(query2, BooleanClause.Occur.MUST);
anyone knows why this is happening ?
i have checked the Lucene dll version, and its the same version in both sites (2.9.2.2)
is the code i have written in SITE A wrong ? is SITE B code wrong ?
is this my fault at all ? can production server infulance something like this ?

Answer 1

Doesn't they have individual indexes on disk? If they have been indexed differently, they would also return different results. One thing that comes to mind is if there is some sort of case sensitivity that matters, becayse a TermQuery will look for an EXACT match, where as the parser will try to tokenize/filter the search term according to the analyzer (and probably search for "true" instead of "True".