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2025.10.20

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After I pushed the PHP version on the server to 7.4, I hadn't noticed that the modules required by the Sphider search feature had been disabled and that Sphider had stopped working...

The required modules have now been re-enabled.

One further problem was that Sphider knows not to touch anything in the forum directory. The SIDs encoded into the forum's URLs that it serves cause Sphider to go around and around in circles.

After I changed the path of the forum directory, that was exactly what Sphider was doing and it wrote about 4GB of search data into the temp table of its database and a huge number of access requests into the logs. 😀

Now Sphider should be working correctly again.
I think I'll adapt the site slightly so that themes and other functionality carry over to the Search pages.

Edit: This has now been done.
Next, I need to tweak the sidebar module so that it's context-aware and goes into the right mode when displaying the search results.

I am very grateful to CaptainQuirk for his continued work on Sphider.

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