SP2013 Unable to get Cross Site Publishing working

Question

Hi folks,
I am wondering if anyone has a set of instructions for implementing Cross Site publishing in SharePoint 2013
that actually work and are up-to-date.
I'm trying to implement CSP using a simple document library in a product catalog site collection to a publishing site.  Created a term set, enabled the library under catalog settings for anonymous, uploaded content, full crawled the library, connected
to the catalog from the publishing site, updated the navigation properties on the publishing site - When I test clicking on the navigation link gives a 'The page you are looking for doesn't exist' so it appears not to be creating the appropriate page.
I've examined a dozen different sets of instructions that are either incomplete or just wouldn't work to see if I am missing a step but cannot identify why I don't see the page with a list of document.
One [potential] issue that I have noticed is that the term I am using has a 'memberof' field.  However some times the permissions get correctly updated and sometimes they do not - there appears no way to update or remove values here.
Regards
Andy
Update:  I've managed to get a little further (by chance) - after waiting a little longer, I now get the catalogue page displayed, however, there is a warning 'Checked out to you'.  I cannot find any documentation around why this
occurs and how to prevent it.
Also, if I click the link of the document, it does not open the document but instead displays the fields from the document properties (name, version, date etc.).

Answer 1

At the moment the best I can get to happen is a list of documents (with large grey boxes above the names) to appear when the navigation link (the term) is selected on the publishing site. Clicking on the links results in a 'page not found' error.
The URL that is generated when I hover the mouse over the document name on the publishing site  is in the format of  http:server/sites/sitename/term-name/documentname/term-name/15/1.0   I am not sure how that would resolve aback to any
document.
The first reference to term-name appears to be the value in the term-driven-pages tab, Friendly URL for term field out of the term store on the publishing site.
The second reference to term-name appears to be the value in the Navigation tab for the same term.
Edit:  I am finally able to open a document successfully.   I had to make a couple of changes, the first was to remove the catalog connection and re-create it.  The Catalog Item URL Behaviour needed to be set to 'Make URLS point to source
catalog',  the second was as above - to edit the content search webpart on the  category-xyz page so that it was set to OriginalPath  (and remember to check in and publish the page).
Whenever the catalog connection is modified one needs to re-crawl the server - I found that continuous crawl often didn't seem to pick up changes, so for testing I used a full manual crawl.
Also, when re-creating the catalog connection an error about duplicate terms can be ignored (it still creates the catalog connection), but you have to run a full search crawl afterwards.
Now that I know it works, I need to re-do everything from scratch to ensure that it can be replicated. If I get time, I will post up some instructions with all of the issues I encountered listed.