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Forum search fails often

Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2019 8:53 am
by papaluna
Hi,
I noticed the last few weeks that the forum search functionality does not always work. It returns HTTP 500 especially when entering 2 words.

For example
https://www.esp32.com/search.php?keywor ... mit=Search

Re: Forum search fails often

Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2019 10:46 am
by WiFive
Hopefully it can be improved. In the meantime you can try

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3A ... +rtc+clock

Re: Forum search fails often

Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2019 11:06 am
by papaluna
Thanks. That works :)

Re: Forum search fails often

Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2019 2:58 am
by ESP_Sprite
Thanks for notifying us of this issue, we're looking into it. I think we're hitting some kind of timeout.

Re: Forum search fails often

Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2019 6:04 am
by papaluna
Yes, a timeout in the PHP module or HTTPD module.

Re: Forum search fails often

Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2019 8:15 pm
by phatpaul
I was getting so frustrated with the search just hanging. Somehow my search for "search forum" didn't fail and brought me here.

Thanks for the advice to use google via https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aesp32.com+QUERY
That works! :)

Re: Forum search fails often

Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2019 8:49 pm
by plajjd
I also find that searching within the forum often fails (or just never finishes), and that Google searching is more likely to yield useful results.

It would be great, however, if the forum search feature could be fixed (improved).

Phil.