B&R Search Query --Fixed (broke again)

[Chris Elston]

Just a short note, we fixed the "B&R" PLC search query in MrPLC. You should be able to search for B&R now. We might add a forum for this PLC as the activity is picking up for this company. Kudos to them. Sorry to B&R our forum search has been broke for while. The ampersand is a tough character to deal with.

[Chris Elston]

FYI - I noticed this doesn't work anymore 12 years LATER. Maybe through all the upgrades or something. I am checking on this if there is a way to fix this one. The Ampersand is tricky with a Linux box for sure...

[Chris Elston]

Okay I remembered what I did to fix this 12 years ago, and it's NOT EASY right now or possible.

12 years MrPLC was on a fully ROOT server and today it's not at the moment. So I don't have full root access to the server. I have full root access to the website but not the whole server like I did back then. So I can't fix this right now because it requires a change to MySQL setting which then needs to be recompiled. I asked the host admin if they would do it and of course they said no. So maybe later when the traffic gets back up on MrPLC if it ever does and we move to a dedicated server again, I can fix this one. The other option is to rent a Cloud Compute server but I need to run a third party search tool like ElasticSearch and that needs 8GB of ram and on a cloud compute server that would be another $60 a month...so without any advertising at the moment, I will need to pass since all the hosting is out of my pocket at the moment. Sorry to the B&R folks out there but the issues is a MySQL setting for 3 character limit or a Cloud Compute server. I'll see if I can figure out another work around later.