I've just installed forum v 1.2.4. Everything is working well except a problem with search. Anytime I search for a string that can not be found I get a server error. Even just clicking the search button with no entry cause the same server error. If I enter a string that can be found in the search, it works perfectly.

Here's the error (with debug turned on).

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Server error!


The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request.

Error message:
Premature end of script headers: gforum.cgi

Error 500
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Further, I have no other problems with any of the features. Everything seems to be working well except for this problem.

I would appreciate any guidance you can offer.

Ron

With the help of our host, we've been able to figure out this problem. At least get us a useable solution. It seems to be that it's the version of Perl that our system uses that's causing this. We tested this on 3 different installations. On Perl 5.8.4 it worked ok. On Perl 5.6.1 it worked ok. But our current system uses Perl 5.8.9 where it did not work. It was narrowed down to the Search.pm file. More specifically the (...SEARCH_NO_RESULTS...) line which is not executing the return error and simply bails out with nothing. We commented out line 21: #$COMPILE[err}... and Line 28 #End_OF_SUB. and now everything is working OK. We no longer get the server error. Whether it's the right move or not, I don't know. All I know is that it works. We're still waiting to hear back from GossamerThreads for their comments and advice. Will let you know when I hear something.

I reported this to the Gossamer Threads support, but I never got a reply back. I guess maybe they are just happy we figured it out ourselves and didn't need to continue the support thread any further. But, I also asked them when the forum 2.0 would be available, never got a reply on that either. Hmmm, wonder if anyone's home?

I got a reply back from support. It appears that the reply was sent much earlier, but just didn't reach me. My message in this forum prompted the additional reply. This is good. The reply, by the way, was that this particular issues has not been reported by others, and it appears that my problem may have been due to the perl version that my host uses.

I am most pleased to receive the followup reply. We will continue to be a long and loyal GossamerThreads customer. As for gforum 2.0, see my followup in that thread.