Searching Forum Results = 404 pages

Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 3:04 pm

Hi

I don't know what happened, but suddenly here (and on nukeresources) when I search forums and get results, the links give me 404 errors.

I thought at first it was either my browser or something so I tested here and at Nukeresources with a IE, Mozilla and FireFox and get the same thing. This isn't the case on my site or others I have tested.

Ideas?

One last thing. For some reason, your banner doesn't work in Mozilla browsers. Thought you should know.

UPDATE: This seems to only happen with multiple words or when searching for exact matches.

Do an exact search by "remove profile" and then click on any link in the results for an example.

Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 3:25 pm

I tried forum search on banners and the first few links seemed fine. Can you give an example?

The banner for the default theme here is flash so if you don't have the Mozilla plug in installed it could flake out?

Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 3:28 pm

See update section in original post.

The result I get (when clicking on the first link which reveals THIS post) is:

Quote:

Page Not Found

Referred From : http://www.ravenphpscripts.com/forums-search-results.html
Your IP : (DELETE)
The Page Requested: /viewtopic.php&t=2852&highlight=remove+profile
Agent : Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3
Redirect Status : 404

UPDATE:
What's interesting is that if I do a regular search with single words, I get .html page results, whereas if I use multiple word exact searches I get viewtopic.php results.

Is this a GoogleTap issue?

Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 3:34 pm

Yeh looks like a mod rewrite issue from here. Urls are coming out like
/viewtopic.php&t=2852&highlight=remove+profile

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

Thanks for letting me know Smack

I'll try to see what's broken.

Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 4:05 pm

It's all Google Tap. Search for 'remove footer'. That works. Seems to be a little more than just multiple words. I'll continue looking.

Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 5:07 pm

I'm using NextGen at Resources so i would have to disable it and try a search to see what happens but still getting viewtopic.php makes me wonder if this really is caused by GT and not by a section of code in any forum file that may not have the correct url in it, i'll check later.

Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 5:18 pm

If it's any consolation, searching for 'remove profile' on every GT'd nuke site I've tried returns the same error Mad

Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 5:38 pm

I knew there was at least one reason besides conserving resources I haven't used it this time around.

Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 6:12 pm

Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 6:30 pm

I'm not using any kind of mod_rewrite solution, so I went ahead and created a test.

First, I created a message called "Disable Profile".
Next, I did an exact search by "diable profile"
The results yeilded the new message.
If I click on the "Forum" column part of the result, I'm taken to the forum where the message tiltle is and can click on the message.
If I click on the "Topics" result, I get a 404 error with:

Quote:

Not Found
The requested URL /viewtopic.php&t=50&highlight=disable+profile was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Apache/1.3.31 Server at www.64bit.us Port 80

So.. While I'm on the subject, I know there is a forum solution for using "Your_Account" exclusively and eliminating phpbb's "Profile" functions. I've read it about 20 times, but wanted to confirm some information. If anyone knows where this post is, can you give me the link?

Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 6:32 pm

Try it w/o the word profile. Use any other word. It's somehow keyed to 'profile'.

Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 6:50 pm

Okay Chat, here's what I've found. This could just be a freak coincidence, but it appears to be tied to the word 'profile'. That's the only time I can make this anomaly appear. Then, it gets [mis]assigned in Forums/search.php around line 885 in v6.9

Code:

                        $topic_url = append_sid("viewtopic.$phpEx?" . POST_TOPIC_URL . '=' . $searchset[$i]['topic_id'] . "&amp;highlight=$highlight_active");

Tag, you're it Bang Head

Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 6:56 pm

In my 7.4 patched in the search.php, I found this:

Code:

         $topic_url = append_sid("viewtopic.$phpEx?" . POST_TOPIC_URL . '=' . $searchset[$i]['topic_id'] . "&amp;highlight=$highlight_active");

I changed that to:

Code:

         $topic_url = append_sid("viewtopic.$phpEx?" . POST_TOPIC_URL . '=' . $searchset[$i]['topic_id']);

I get the proper results but without the "highlight" function, though the topic link then works without problems.

Is this the fix? Ideas?

UPDATE:.. Man, GMTA Raven.
Also, not sure if anyone picked this up above but, I know there is a forum post for using "Your_Account" exclusively and eliminating phpbb's "Profile" functions. I've read it about 20 times, but wanted to confirm some information. If anyone knows where this post is, can you give me the link?

Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 7:37 pm

More to chew on. When searching for 'remove profile', the url is formed like this and of course is wrong

Code:

http://ravenphpscripts.com/viewtopic.php&t=2852&highlight=remove+profile

It should be

Code:

http://ravenphpscripts.com/posts2852-highlightremove+profile.html

or

Code:

http://ravenphpscripts.com/posts2852-highlightremove.html+profile

No matter what I do, the word profile keeps cropping up but I still can't see why that seems to be a factor Evil or Very Mad

It still seems as if it is somehow related to GT but 64bit says it happens on his site and his site is not GT'd. So, the search continues.

Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 7:50 pm

I'm just curious, what function does the "highlight" feature serve.

From my experience, it doesn't do anything.

Am I missing something?

Also, I would think that if it were a problematic word, it would appear in the language/search_stopwords.txt file, but it doesn't.

Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 8:20 pm

Highlight can be nice to show you how bad the keywords you searched on are Very Happy

Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 8:22 pm

I swear 'profile' is the key. I may end up totally wrong, but I cannot produce the error with any other word(s). Can anyone else?

Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 9:00 pm

Okay. I have taken GT completely out of my code and the problem is that when the word 'profile' is in the search criteria, some yet unknown space anomaly occurs and

Code:

modules.php ?name=Forums&file=

is not prefixed to the link that is produced. So, instead of looking like this

Code:

http://127.0.0.1/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=1006&highlight=remove+profile

it looks like this

Code:

http://127.0.0.1/viewtopic&t=1006&highlight=remove+profile

Now, please tell me why!!! Evil or Very Mad

(I had to place a space after modules.php because GT kept grabbing it and translating it)

Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 9:18 pm

Well, don't feel bad... Profiles (plural) and profiler will do it too.

Did you try the fix I did to fix my site?

Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 9:26 pm

That's a work-around Wink

- I want to know why having the word profile(*) in any part of the search causes this.

Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 9:33 pm

What is really strange is 'profile'* by itself is not a problem. Anything in front if it (with it) is. I can even go "profile delete" and that will work!

Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 9:38 pm

I know. I have stepped each letter like

remove p
remove pr
remove pro
remove prof
remove profi
remove profil

and no problem. But make it
remove profile and WHAM! HitsFan

Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 9:42 pm

Also really weird is how the page link ends in profile (like the way a viewprofile page would end, and not in .html or =results the way a non-google tapped site would show it (with my fix)...

UPDATE: Wait.. I think you were saying something like this above... nevermind.

Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2004 4:27 am

64bitguy wrote:

One last thing. For some reason, your banner doesn't work in Mozilla browsers. Thought you should know.

It's flash. Why would that be MY problem Rolling Eyes