Search is broken

[Jeremy]

The text search (and "all posts by author" feature) is broken.

[????]

That's the end of your stalking for the night then Jeremy

[Fuschia]

Indeed it is

[ed_pete]

The Search function is not working for me either. I typed "wardrobe" into the search box and clicked the search button. It says the search is running but then comes back with a blank screen with the following URL.

http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/search.php?9,search=wardrobe,page=1,match_type=ALL,match_dates=365,match_forum=ALL

[ianr]

Seems ok now. I suspect the server was going through a Zen phase.

[Administrator]

Yes, the /tmp folder on the server was full up again which stopped the search from working. Should be fine now.

[Ladymuck]

It's gawn again...

[ianr]

>Yes, the /tmp folder on the server was full up again which stopped the search from working. Should be fine now.

If it's going to be a recurring problem, run a cron job to regularly purge it of all but the freshest stuff and email the admins of any impending space problems.

[Administrator]

All fixed. It seems that when we did a backup the other day we accidentally left the (2Gb) file on the server which meant it was virtually full.

Unfortunately we don't have the skills in house to create and run a purge script, but we will be upgrading the software soon, the newer version of the software has better space-saving cache-clearing facilities which should stop things like this happening.

Thank you for letting us know about this problem by the way, we don't know about some issues until we're told.

[Ladymuck]

Wow that was quick! Once again, thank you SO much. x