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RamdonGhai
08-13-2010, 10:26 PM
I upgraded my board to vb4.. Mostly everything was straight forward, but now the search feature is not working properly. When you try to run a search, its giving a database error. I checked the permissions on the ftp site for search.php, which was 755.

I want the search feature to work, or at least is there a way to put vb3 search feature back on (the users seemed to like the older one a lot more)

Are there any third party search options that could probably solve my problem? Maybe even run better than the built in search feature?

Thanks in advance!
Lynne
08-13-2010, 10:29 PM
What is the database error? Did you rebuild the search indexes when you finished your upgrade?

If you have a dedicated server, you have the option of installing sphinx.
Boofo
08-13-2010, 10:53 PM
Lynne, can you install sphinx on a VPS?
Xencored
08-13-2010, 10:57 PM
Lynne, can you install sphinx on a VPS?

If you have SSH and root than yes you can :)