The "Search..." bar on the forum doesn't work for me; it always times out.
If it is of help to anyone else, I've found that I can use my browser's omnibar as an alternative: simply typing "forum.sagittal.org: thing i was searching for" there works.
Search times out
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Re: Search times out
Thanks for that. Fixed now.
I had noticed it too, and tried rebuilding the index, to no avail. Searching the PHP help forum told me that the likely culprit was: failing to install and enable the optional "mbstring" extension when I upgraded PHP to version 7.4 recently. I fixed it by logging into the server as root and issuing the following commands:
I had noticed it too, and tried rebuilding the index, to no avail. Searching the PHP help forum told me that the likely culprit was: failing to install and enable the optional "mbstring" extension when I upgraded PHP to version 7.4 recently. I fixed it by logging into the server as root and issuing the following commands:
apt-get install php7.4-mbstring service apache2 restart
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Re: Search times out
Oh, great, thanks! Indeed, search works great now. I'm glad it was fixable. Thanks for documenting the solution, too.