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Offline Ferrit

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Search?
« on: June 27, 2025, 02:34:18 PM »
Afternoon,

Open question the busy people who look after the forum.

I am really struggling to use the search function correctly.  I search for obvious things I know are there, as a Google search finds them (sometimes in a test forum??), and I dont find anything or much.  For example

https://lanciabeta.co.uk/testforum/index.php?topic=4191.0

Any forum links to other pages never seem to work, you just end up back at the start page

http://www.lanciabeta.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=1473.0

I bet I am asking questions that have been answered many a time.  Hay its good to talk... :-)

and I really miss a thumbs up

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Re: Search?
« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2025, 04:35:15 PM »
Hi Mark

Ok, bit of history.

The forum was originally hosted on Zen, hence myzen.co.uk address coming up in searches. There was a problem which had plagued this and the LMC forum (same host), this was the now infamous 403 errors occurring. Solution was to move the forum to another host and necessitated the domain changing, hence lanciabeta.co.uk. I did implement a redirect from the old host to existing pages, but (cannot remember why), I ended up just doing a simple redirect any link to myzen going to the home page of lanciabeta.co.uk.
You should be able to simply replace the lanciabeta.co.uk with lanciabeta.co.uk to get to the topic, a bit of a pain, but should work.

So that covers that part, the testforum one is part of the ongoing work to get the forum software up to the latest (and supported) version of the forum. I implemented it so folk could have a play without it having any issues on the main forum, it contains a snapshot of the forum from a few months ago. My aim is to update the active forum later this year, probably after November.

So, on to searches on the forum. I always go to the home page and then put the search item into the box. You should get all the results available.

Hope that helps

Peter
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Re: Search?
« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2025, 10:50:02 PM »
Thanks for that.  This helps I will try it next time I come across similar.

I did wonder as the test forums looks more up to date.  I will look forward to it, love a forum ;-)
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