What about the error message? Any clues there? I disabled anything and everything that had impact on a search function.

Peace,
Gene

It doesn't have to be a mod that deals with search directly. Disable ALL of them and add them back one at a time until you find the culprit.

make sure its not any plugins or anything causing this, its very easy to test this.

Go into your config.php file, directly under

add:
To enable again just remove the line or add // infront of it.


Hope this helps.

~C

Been there, done that. Didn't work.

Here's the history.

1. I was running PHP 5.3.x and it worked fine.

2. I downgraded to PHP 5.2.x because we installed a Mambo site on my server, and it wouldn't work otherwise.

3. After finding the fix for PHP 5.3.x and Mambo, I upgraded to PHP 5.3.6.

4. No plugins/products were changed over this period of several months after the original PHP changeover.

5. Disabling all products didn't change anything.

So where do we go from here?

Peace,
Gene

Nowhere. Talk you your host is all you can do now or download to PHP 5.2.

I'll try 'em.

Peace,
Gene

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Here's the solution.

Zend Optimizer is evidently not compatible with PHP 5.3.

But cPanel's EasyApache installs it anyway.

When I removed that module and rebuilt Apache and PHP, search in vBulletin worked fine.

The host didn't have time to help.

Maybe you can put this in your memory bank in case anyone else complains.

Peace,
Gene

EasyApache will only install that if you have it checked and it was installed before. I use EasyApache and have not had that issue at all.

In theory, when you change PHP versions, it should uncheck things that aren't compatible and not allow them to be installed.

Peace,
Gene

Well, how would it know it isn't compatible with vbulletin, when it is compatible with other things?

If you read my first message you'd see what happened. It's cause and effect. When Zend Optimizer was disabled, the search functionality was restored. Why do I have to explain this?

Peace,
Gene