[ic] Search box perversion

[Hans-Joachim Leidinger]

Lord Valankar wrote:
> 
> Ryan Hertz wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >         The error logs are populated with the following lines indicating that
> > >their is a missing file, namely products.asc A search through the mail
> > >archive brings up many mentions of a file with this extension, most of
> > >which seems to indicate that this file is created by the daemon when a
> > >search by a visitor is performed, but little other information.
> >
> > Perhaps yours is named products.txt?  Check your catalog.cfg to see where
> > it expects your products to be.
> >
> > Ryan Hertz                                              tel  800-645-BAIT
> *SNIP*
> 
> Hi Ryan,
>         Yes the catalog is named products.txt, and products come up just fine
> in the tutorial's index page (which displays all products) The shopping
> chart works just fine as well; as do the flypages. The only thing that
> fails is the search box with the error I posted.
> 
>         From my catalog.cfg =>
> ***BEGIN CATALOG.CFG***
> Database        products        products.txt    TAB
> ProductFiles    products
> VendURL http://set.dragons.org/cgi-bin/tutorial
> SecureURL       http://set.dragons.org/cgu-bin/tutorial
> MailOrderTo     valankar@set.dragons.org
> OrderProfile etc/profiles.order
> Locale em_US currency_symbol $
> 
> Variable WEBMASTER valankar@set.dragons.org
> Variable CONTACT brett@mmdmedical.com
> **END CATALOG.CFG***

It seems to me, anywhere in your page is searching for any items from
"products.asc". You can define the search file with "fi" or
"mv_search_file". Search for "products.asc" in your whole catalog and
try out to find the error.

Joachim

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