Blog Search broken: asks me to download index.php!

Do you have access to your apache error logs?

I’ve had similar things happen to me when PHP ran out of memory, for what that’s worth. A peek at the error log helped me figure it out.

Ok, I was just about to post…. I found the problem and solved it, though I’m not happy with the solution.

On my search page, I used the “Weighted Words” plugin. My blog has over 4500 posts and each post has between 200-600 words. I have other blogs with fewer posts and they work fine, so I disabled this plugin and now search works fine on this blog. So, it is solved…

However, I would still like to figure out how to use Weighted Words…. it seems to start causing problems when blogs get big. Anyone have any suggestions?

I don’t want to mark this “resolved” until I figure how to use the plugin without having this problem…

Don’t know if wp-cache plugin might help with this?

Maybe… since I just reinstalled the blog maybe the wp-cache needs to work for a while. seems also like the problem might be in how the plugin grabs the weighted words.

I will have it disabled for a few days and then try implementing it again and see the results. I’ll mark ‘resolved’ in a few days after further tests.

Also, you could maybe try one of the other similar plugins? I think UTW has a way of setting it up to do this….

Nope, still seems broken. In fact, another blog I have that has run for a long time without a problem, finally broke today on the search. Once I disabled the Weighted Words plugin, it worked fine…. arghh! This blog has now about 2800 posts, so it is quite large.

Ok, so i will investigate other “tag cloud” plugins and see if they work better.