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I just noticed something interesting with my Fatbomb search. I input a keyword/search term and get results. When I input a 2nd search term, my screen goes white with a basic search box and no data.

See for yourself. Use the SnS link below in the sig file, once there, click the "Search" link in the middle of the page (it will take you to the Fatbomb Search page) and see what you get.

Hopefully, someone can clue me in as to what's occuring here. Or, maybe it's just me. Hey, wouldn't be the first time!

John

Do you have any other databases "enabled" besides clickbank? All I see are CB links?

Rick Wilson aka CorpRebel

I've got 2 databases enabled, but have 5 SEs enabled. Shouldn't the SE results come up also??? And, why does the "second search entry" bring up a blank screen. It's like Phatty says, "Nope, one time only."

John

From a coding standpoint it looks clean.

However try this. . .put a full path to your Fatbomb in the default search box like so:

<form action="http://www.stars-n-stripes.us/cgi-bin/phatty/phatty.cgi/"; method="POST">

I have had this problem before and I forgot what the solution is. I am pretty sure it is in the "action" of the form but I could be wrong.

Try that and I will keep working on remebering.

Chris

Tasari
Internet Marketing Warrior
http://www.bestsecrets.com

I set only Google and Yahoo along with my Clickbank db and they work. So it's on your side. See here: http://www.digital-sales.com/cgi-bin/fatbomb/fatbomb.cgi/

J-

Still working on your problem.

Chris

The full URL IS in the "form action." Gotta be something other than that.

John

I just reset the Engines to Google and Yahoo only, with ClickBank Database enabled also.

I now get results, but only from Google. I know ClickBank has an ebook on "How to find a job with NASCAR" but it didn't show.

Also, same problem exists with inputing a second search term. I loose the page and get a white screen with a search box that won't work. It just keeps cycling to the same blank screen with search box.

John

I did notice on your results page a call this for the search box:

<form method="POST" action="/cgi-bin/phatty/phatty.cgi?>
<input name="skin" type="hidden" value="SNSdefault">

Where as the default results box is formed like so:

<form method="POST">
<input name="skin" type="hidden" value="<% form.skin as html %>">
<input name="length" type="hidden" value="<% form.length as html %>">

Did you mess with default-box.html? I am curious on that note.

Also our results are vastly different for 'ebooks' for a search.

See here: http://www.digital-sales.com/ebook-search.htm

I compared the two and we are different in that dept. However it all depends on what entries are in our dbs. Also just becuse you know that there is a Nascar ebook in clickbank doesn't mean that you have it in your db. Do a search for it in you db with a text editor maybe to see if is even there.

I just redid my Fatbomb and I am trying to replicate your problem but haven't come across it yet. Sorry, ya gotta give me time to screw up!

Chris

To the best of recollection, I didn't touch that file. However, I could be mistaken. SNSdefault is the correct skin I'm using. Tell me which file to change and what to change it to, and we'll give it a whack and see what happens.

Also, where, in Fatbomb, does it acquire the Searchfeed URL? I've noticed "ip=1.1.1.1" and it should be "ip=$ip". I see it in the skins section. Remember, I'm a late joiner of SF and have the new URL format.

John

Type in hotels...

I see my sponsored SF, my tazbomb links and teoma.. no Google and Yahoo! Strange hé

Tasari
Internet Marketing Warrior
http://www.bestsecrets.com

Tx in advance,

Tasari
Internet Marketing Warrior
http://www.bestsecrets.com

Did you try setting differner weights for the SEs?

I know this may sound redundant but, did you try JUSt google or yahoo?

Chris

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Joseph Dietrick

I did set Yahoo, Google to 100.. suddenly I got results from Google.. didn't see any from Yahoo.. maybe normal or did you see results of Yahoo Chris/Joseph ?

Tasari
Internet Marketing Warrior
http://www.bestsecrets.com

From Mexico, I see Teoma and Google only.

John

I got results from Google and Teoma.. nothing from Yahoo.. does somebody got results from Yahoo! ?

or is my "Query Timeout (seconds):" of 4 too low ?

Tasari
Internet Marketing Warrior
http://www.bestsecrets.com

Ya cursed me! Now I don't get Yahoo results either?????

Not sure wazzup wit dat?

Am getting the big "G" though.

I'll look into more.

Chris

Remarks :
I always get results from teoma !!
This time I don't have results of Google nor Yahoo (strange!!)

I tested with :
Yahoo : 100
Google : 100
Teoma : 40
Occurance : 50

Strange I get sometimes results of Google... Yahoo! never...

Ouch I am hurting the brains of Chris (alias Poker)

Tasari
Internet Marketing Warrior
http://www.bestsecrets.com

Is my FatBomb Engine (GothSeek.com) too PHAT (Pretty Hot And Temptin')? I logged into the Ensim Site admin CP today only to spot my '500' server errors where through the roof. Seems the number of searches/phrases being cached chewed up the disk space allotment that I had set (500MB). I immediately logged in and upped it to 1000MP but was wondering if anyone else had seen this happen and what they did to prevent the cache files from eating up the disk space. Maybe FatBomb could be modded to send an email to a specific address on a specified error type? Or does increasing the cache 'stale' time inhibit the creation of large caches?

O.T. > ...additionally is there an easy way in Ensim to tell how much space each site is using (similar to the Bandwidth report)? I couldn't find any central list.

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Stanley aka Totenmaske

Affiliate-Blog.com
My FatBomb Feeds
Cherry Bomb XML List
GothSeek.com - the Gothic Search Engine - Powered by FatBomb!

I have had the caches get rather large too.

The longer you set your cache time for, the larger the cache can get since it won't be deleted automatically until the expiration time.

Of course when the cache expires, fatbomb has to go back out and retrieve new information for every search which takes longer.

I don't know of any other hooks in Fatbomb to work around this right now.

Bo

Any news ? Status please ?

Tasari
Internet Marketing Warrior
http://www.bestsecrets.com

I input a search parameter to Fatbomb. It returns results and says there are (5) pages of results.

I have my ClickBank database, Google and Yahoo SEs enabled.

When I click on page (2), I get the following:

--FatBomb
--Software Error
--invalid search parameters at lib/Gamma/App/Default.pm line 30.

Page in question is found by conducting search at:
http://www.stars-n-stripes.us/search.html

Any advice/fix would be appreciated.

John

The error is because the sign in between your keywords is missing in the links to pages 2 and higher.

For example, search for gardening supplies - the first page is returned properly, but the link to other pages includes the search term as gardening supplies instead of gardening supplies.

Did you make any changes to the program and/or template that would cause that? I'm away from home right now, so I can't look at the code, but that's where to start.

Jeff

I am having a weird problem with my fatbomb install. I install and set permissions as stated in the readme file and select some search engine databases 3 to be exact, then I use the test button and fb returns results. When I do a second search from test box or search box I get no results and it crashes my browser IE6.0.2 sp1.

Here is where my install is: http://www.top---10.com/cgi-bin/fb/f.cgi

Any ideas on how I can fix this?

Thanks
Gary

It sounds like the exact same problem as described in posts 22 & 23 above.

Although now that I've had some time to look at my own Fatbomb installation, my keywords don't have the " " sign in them either, so my suggestion of the possible problem to John isn't accurate. Most of the other bombs have " " between each word in a phrase, so I thought Fatbomb did too, but it doesn't. My installation is working on a 2nd search or on page 2, however.

Will have to look into this a bit more.

Jeff

You still have access? Or, do I need to resend it?

John

I still have it I think. I've just been away from home this week & haven't been able to look into it yet.

Jeff

I noticed that your "numbered results" are pointing towards the "default-results.html":
ht--tp://www.stars-n-stripes.us/cgi-bin/phatty/phatty.cgi/?skin=default-results.html&keywords=ebooks&start=90&length=30

It should be like below:

ht--tp://www.stars-n-stripes.us/cgi-bin/phatty/phatty.cgi/?skin=default&keywords=ebooks&start=60&length=30

Or what ever skin you called in the search form.

That's why you are getting the error.

Have to think why that is happening.

Gary,

Your problem is similar but your links do not have the "skins=" parameter filled in.

ht-tp://www.top---10.com/cgi-bin/fb/f.cgi/?skin=&keywords=acne&start=40&length=20

It should read:

ht-tp://www.top---10.com/cgi-bin/fb/f.cgi/?skin=default&keywords=acne&start=40&length=20

Or what ever skin you called in the search form.

Any help????

Chris

Look in the "deafult-results.html" at the very end it should look like this:

{% else %}
<a href="/cgi-bin/fatbomb/fatbomb.cgi/?skin={% form.skin as url %}. . . . . . .]</a>{% end %}

Obviously replace /cgi-bin/fatbomb/fatbomb.cgi with the path to your file. And remember I put the "curly brackets" in above for the forum. They are really square brackets.

That is (most likely) the pain-in-your-butt right there. The script isn't understanding or diggin'on the bad parameter for skin=.

Gary, also, your skin value isn't filled in in your search form:

<form method="POST">
<input name="skin" type="hidden" value="">
<input name="length" type="hidden" value="">

The "default-box.html" will be as so:

<form method="POST">
<input name="skin" type="hidden" value="{% form.skin as html %}">
<input name="length" type="hidden" value="{% form.length as html %}">

Chris

I fixed it for ya.

gary,

Strange. . .Now it works fine for me.

????????????

Chris

I read your email BEFORE I read your reply here. So, disregard my "question." LOL We be a bit slow, at times. LOL

Thanks for the "fix." I've gone in and looked at both my "backup" and your correction and understand what was generating the problem now. Phatty can sure be picky some times.

John

Any news ? Status please ?

Tasari
Internet Marketing Warrior
http://www.bestsecrets.com

Nadda. Zippo. Nothing!

??????

C-

I made the changes to the default-results.html file as Poker suggested. The default-box.html file already had the correct code in it. It still crashes my browser. I used fatbomb 1.02 from Kurt. Is this the most current version?

Thanks for your continude help

Gary

Did you get this working?

I just tested your site with IE 6.0.28 and it seems to be OK now.

Jeff

It is working fine for me too.

Have latest version of ie.

Chris

Gary

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Stanley aka Totenmaske

Affiliate-Blog.com
My FatBomb Feeds
Cherry Bomb XML List
GothSeek.com - the Gothic Search Engine - Powered by FatBomb!

I think it's set here:

data/config.dat

Jeff

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Stanley aka Totenmaske

Affiliate-Blog.com
My FatBomb Feeds
Cherry Bomb XML List
GothSeek.com - the Gothic Search Engine - Powered by FatBomb!

I'm having the same problem too, I already sent an email to Chris to see if he can help me out on this - of course, will pay some money if I can afford - but wonder if anybody else having the same problem here?

alltheweb - bring up 5 pages of result.

aol - one page 18 results

altavista - just one result

Ask Jeeves - non

HotBot - one page 10 results

dmoz - one page 18 results

Netscape - none

yahoo - none

google - none

I only use teoma, google and yahoo.. with tazbomb and addurlbomb of course

Tasari
Internet Marketing Warrior
http://www.bestsecrets.com

Google adds everything in the <a href="">HERE</a> , after the rest is normal.. but you see in the anchor text everything of google's first result of "rome" search..

Tasari

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I set all permissions and tried everything else all day to try and figure out what I am doing wrong. (Fatbomb 1.2)

Any help appreceated. Not sure if this is the correct thread.

Thanks
Steve

Thanks
Steve

When I run a query I get this error:

cannot read channel configuration
(/virtual/var/www/cgi-bin/blogbombx/data/config.pl)
line 584. >

I searched and found that there is a reference

'path' => '/virtual/var/www/cgi-bin/blogbombx/feedsearch_ssi.cgi',

inside the cofig.dat

Can you tell me what to change??

John

That error is caused by not having Blogbomb installed...Fatty is trying to read it, and it isn't there...

You have three options...

1 Install Blogbomb - I'll email it to you, but don't have a Readme for it, as I depend on Kirill to take care of that stuff.

2 Go to "Feeds" in your FatBomb Admin and delete the path to BlogBomb there.

3. Send me your ftp info and we'll have Kirill install and fix everything.

I suggest we do #2 and #3...Go ahead and delete the path to Blogbomb, just to mess around with Fatty, then send me your FTP info and have Kirill install Blogbomb and SpiderBomb and get everything configed properly.

I have been using fatbomb successfully on my servers for almost 2 years.

Suddenly it takes 90 seconds to load. The techs said i need to see the developer.

I say something is wrong or something happened to the server.

ONly 2 instances are having this problem the other bombs work fine.

I changed the fatbomb.cgi file name, still a problem.

Thought it may be perl version, but again other fatbombs works.

The site is only slow when trying to search.

http://localbizus.com/small/local.cgi/

Any ideas.

The logical place to start is, what resources/engines/databases are the two slow instances using that the "fast" instances aren't?

My immediate thought is one of the engines changed their format...On a hunch check Looksmart, they change their layout almost daily, it seems. If it isn't Looksmart, see what engines you use that aren't being used on the fast FatBombs.

Right on. The problem for me is DMOZ.

kelvin