245579 - Search function returns completely blank page if search term not found

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Bugzilla :: bugzilla.org, defect)

Description

[Jim Garrison]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

Using the documentation search facility, if you enter a term that is
not found in the documentation (I was looking for 'estimate'), you get
a completely empty page back, with no "search returned zero matches" or some
such error message.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to the search page
2. Enter a term not found, or random garbage
3. Click the SEARCH button

Actual Results:  
Completely empty page

Expected Results:  
An error message stating "No results found" or whatever you
consider an appropriate message for this condition.

Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Hmm, I'm getting a completely blank page for everything right now.  Probably has
something to do with the URLs all changing and the search indexer is probably
indexing the wrong URLs.

In any case, the problem is with htdig on the back end... I'll need to screw
with the configuration.

Comment 2

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

OK, it's fixed.  The lack of results at all was indeed the wrong URL paths being
scanned by the indexer.  The blank pages were permission problems, webserver
couldn't read the search template files.

That said, we really should redo the templates to use the Bugzilla site theme
instead of the default htdig theme, but that can be another bug.