[RideZX6R]

Regardless of using a forum search or advanced search, I enter in parameters and 50-75% of the time get a failure with an error 500 attached to it.

The "vbulletin sucks" excuse is lost on me as I visit many other vbulletin board sites without this issue...

Why has this been allowed to be such a pain point for so long?

[DGthe3]

Getting errors certainly isn't part of the 'v-bull search is crap' thing.

Could you provide examples of the terms/parameters that you're using? It may help admin track down where the problem is coming from.

[KenKat]

I find if I use Google Search (second option down) from Search on the top menu, I get much better results than the built in site search.

[RideZX6R]

Originally Posted by DGthe3

Getting errors certainly isn't part of the 'v-bull search is crap' thing.

Could you provide examples of the terms/parameters that you're using? It may help admin track down where the problem is coming from.

Sure - Searched the 1le forum regarding it having the ZL1 fuel pump...

From forum search I'll enter the keywords, hit enter, wait a bit and I'm met with this page...


If I go to advanced search, I can select any parameters I want - I still get the same page.

Had the same experience yesterday (hence starting the thread) and intermittently for the last 6 months...

[DGthe3]

Well, I just tried it myself and didn't have any issue when I searched the Camaro6 1LE subforum for 'fuel pump'. I was going to suggest that the problem may be with your browser (I use firefox, not chrome) ... but then I thought to try searching for 'zl1 fuel pump'. Thats when I got a blank screen with the same URL: http://www.camaro6.com/forums/search.php?do=process

I tried different combinations of 'ZL1', 'fuel', and 'pump' as well as a few other terms in place of 'zl1', like '1LE' and '1SS'. The search behaved normally whenever I did NOT include 'ZL1'; it was fine with everything else I've tried.

So it looks like somehow, including the term 'ZL1' breaks the site's search function. And I have now reached the limit of my usefulness, I simply don't know enough (or have access to) the inner workings of the site's code to do any more than diagnose where the problem is. Now its up to Tran and/or MarkLS2.

I guess for the time being, either use google to do a site search or figure out a way to ask about the ZL1 fuel pump without actually using 'ZL1' as a search term.

[mlee]

I use Chrome 100% of the time and never get search errors.

Most of the time I'm searching titles only. Seems like it's a time out thing.

[h422694]

Originally Posted by RideZX6R

Regardless of using a forum search or advanced search, I enter in parameters and 50-75% of the time get a failure with an error 500 attached to it.

500 errors are generally server side errors. There are several possible causes including memory shortages & corrupt files.
It's doubtful that any thing you can do on your PC will resolve the issue but you can try:

1 - Shutdown you browser
2 - Delete you cookies
3 - Restart you browser

[jrhagen]

I got stuck on "always intermittently". Which is it, always or intermittently?

[ride98red]

for the love of all that is good PLEASE INVESTIGATE AND FIX THIS ISSUE!!!! Every time I try to search for posts or threads with "ZL1" or "1LE" I get that freakin 500 error!!! so annoying!

[SSEssence]

I just go straight to google and search issue wanted + camaro5 at the end every time. Works like a charm!

[RideZX6R]

Originally Posted by jrhagen

I got stuck on "always intermittently". Which is it, always or intermittently?

Would you prefer I said "Intermittently since I have started using this site" ?
Ie it's always been an intermittent issue for me, never resolved.

Originally Posted by ride98red

for the love of all that is good PLEASE INVESTIGATE AND FIX THIS ISSUE!!!! Every time I try to search for posts or threads with "ZL1" or "1LE" I get that freakin 500 error!!! so annoying!

Looks like alphanumeric combos are causing a problem

[MarkLS2]

This should work better now.. maybe.. hopefully