Search Engine Problem?

[RandyMoon]

Anyone else having trouble searching on the Mac Mods Page???

I have tried the search engine and always get this error message. I have tried lots of combinations.

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@macgregorsailors.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.


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

[Frank C]

The search button is working fine here (Comcast internet cable & Opera).

Just a guess Randy, but I think you'll sometimes get that message if your browser's "wait-time" is too short for the server's searching delay. Bet some techie can advise you - assuming that you're using IE6 ??

[mike]

Hmmm... if I go to the search page and hit "Perform Search" without selecting or entering anything in the search fields, it performs the search fine (and presumably returns all records). But if any of the search fields are populated, I get the same error.

Mac OS X 10.4 / Firefox

--Mike

[DLT]

I've always seen that error... I've just accepted that...

[kmclemore]

I've always seen that error... I've just accepted that...

Me too. I just don't use it.

[Frank C]

Now I'm really puzzled. Am I the only one who can get results from search? ... and the results are perfectly reasonable, as follows:

Search for any terms:
windward sheeting = 88 matches
vang sheeting = 156 matches
Harken 225 = 83 matches

Search for all terms:
windward sheeting = 13 matches
vang sheeting = 11 matches
Harken 225 = 03 matches

[mike]

Now I'm really puzzled. Am I the only one who can get results from search?

Watch out... I think you've just designated yourself to be the offical search proxy for those of us who can't use it ourselves.

"Frank, when you get a sec, give me all the returns for 'backstay adjuster' and 'lazy jacks'... thanks!"

--Mike

[baldbaby2000]

I too have never gotten the search to work. Weird.

[Frank C]

Watch out... I think you've just designated yourself to be the offical search proxy for those of us who can't use it ourselves.
"Frank, when you get a sec, give me all the returns for 'backstay adjuster' and 'lazy jacks'... thanks!"--Mike

Strangely (or perhaps not), when I run an all-words search on "lazy jacks", this thread is at the top of the list (obviously a chrono list), along with 17 other matching threads. But I can't link to that search page ... it is populated on-the-fly, so it has no website identity. I tried to save it as an HTM file, reload to my browser and click to the matching threads ... but after saving the file has invalid pointers ... meaning it would be useless for me to email that file.

When I run an all-words search on "backstay adjuster" this thread is again at the top, along with 26 other matching threads. The only way to send to you would be to individually clipboard each of the 45 links, and then repaste them one-by-one into a posting. (I'm generous, but not generous to a fault )!

Opera is a free browser at www.opera.com, it only weighs 3 megabytes and it works with phpBB search pages, this forum and others too. It also offers tabbed browsing, quite a remarkable benefit once you learn about it. Opera is the most secure browser on Windows ... and it's free (with a tiny Google-text ad banner).

For anyone who hasn't used a tabbed browser, here's how it works. Page tabs are arrayed horizontally across the page just above the std address field, appearing just like index tabs in a binder. I click on 4 or 5 threads that I want to read, and they all begin loading in background tabs. By time I clicked on five, the first page tab is ready to read ... read it and delete, the second page appears in place.

Someone who's curious might try downloading it and see what happens.

[kmclemore]

Opera is a free browser at www.opera.com, it only weighs 3 megabytes and it works with phpBB search pages, this forum and others too. It also offers tabbed browsing, quite a remarkable benefit once you learn about it. Opera is the most secure browser on Windows ... and it's free (with a tiny Google-text ad banner).

Yes, Opera is good. I especially liked their 'BORK' edition! Hillarious! Click HERE for a screen-shot example. That version is no longer available from Opera, but I snapped it up when it was, and still have a copy... somewhere... ... but there's at least a mirrored copy here anyway.

The guys who make Opera are a gas... check out their 'One Million Download Challenge"... (NOTE: Boating related content!) Must be fun to work there.

I happen to use Mozilla... it's also a tabbed browser, more secure than MS Internet Explorer and also delightfully free! Also includes a more secure mail client than MS Outlook, as well as a nice basic web page editor, too.

[DLT]

Strangely (or perhaps not), when I run an all-words search on "lazy jacks", this thread is at the top of the list (obviously a chrono list), along with 17 other matching threads.

Frank what you describe here is the "thread" search engine, a link to which appears at the top of the screen, just under the banner ad.

What I, at least, was talking about is the "mods" search. To get to that, you click the "Mac Mods Page" button on the left side of the screen and then click on the search button...

The "thread" search has always worked for me. Its the "mods" search that never has...

[Frank C]

Duh .... sorry, gotta improve my skimming technique. Randy clearly said he was trying to search Mods.

I exchanged messages w/ Heath sometime last year, and true enough, Heath has never implemented the Mods-search button.

[RandyMoon]

I exchanged messages w/ Heath sometime last year, and true enough, Heath has never implemented the Mods-search button.

Well, that asnwers that question. I guess Frank can now be our official search engine.