Trouble searching!?!?
 

Hello,

I am having a difficult time searching this forum. When I try to search, my browser locks up and then I get the "page cannot be displayed" message.

Is there something I am doing wrong? Before I post a question, I would rather search for my answer. Thanks again for any and all help.

The page I get looks like this:

The page cannot be displayed
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Please try the following:

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Cannot find server or DNS Error
Internet Explorer

There's a Technical Support forum just for issues like these
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=386
I'm sure the mods will move it there so you don't have to cross-post.

happens to me also. usually when there are more than 2 words in the search

This has nothing to do with the CO forum, so over it goes...

Xyzzy
CO forum moderator

still can't do a search...

guess there is nothing to do. this site became so slow lately

Search still down although new posts is working.

thanks. I'll try it later

We do have some search problems here right now and we are working on them. Here are some workarounds you can try in the meantime.

- Try to search with only one word, multi word searches often choke up the search.

- Select words that are not extremely common when searching. words such as 'bonus' or 'miles' are very common and will not return search results, but will result in timeouts of the search. (the blank screen)

- Another possible way to get around this problem is to use a FT specific Google search:

http://www.flyertalk.com/google_search.php

Thanks, and sorry for the inconvenience,

i'm seeing a problem with "New Posts"

instead of:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/search.php?do=getnew
it redirects to:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/searc...earchid=104350

Thanks for the heads up. The redirect itself is not a problem on its own, but we had a db sync problem, this should be working correctly now. Thanks,

^ it looks great! thank you.

I'm having trouble searching too. Every time I to search, I get redirected to a page asking me log-in, even though I'm already logged in. Each time I log in again as requested, it just takes me right back to the log-in screen.

New Posts is broken again.

true :(