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After the last Friendica update (I think...haven't tested in a controlled fashion) my search stopped working, and now any and all searches end in a 404. Did I miss a step in my configuration somewhere? The instance has been going for years, and the search has been working previously.

I'm not excluding user error (i.e. from me) but would someone know how I can fix it?

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in reply to Mathias Hellquist (Friendica)

Right, I might have been too quick in asking. Had a quick look around for the unlikely event that I would see something that looked out of place. It indeed looked like there was a permissions issue going on in the smarty3 folder, so after having re-assigned ownership of a couple of folders in there the search seems to be working again.

There were a couple of folders in there though that had...odd...names (basically made it look like a mistake), but anyways, it is now sorted I think. At least it doesn't give 404's any longer.

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in reply to Mathias Hellquist (Friendica)

Concerning the search: With this update we rebuild the search index. This means that in the first days the search results won't be complete.