Search function timing out.

**Strider199** · 09-07-2013, 10:53 PM

I really rely on the search function before I post a question to get some back ground but lately I am seeing this message when I preform a search;

Gateway Time-out
The gateway did not receive a timely response from the upstream server or application.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Is there something I need to alter on my end? Any advise would be welcome. Thanks in advance.

**korith** · 09-07-2013, 11:03 PM

Have had that happen before, just have to refresh or search again. Though I have been having other timeout errors as well, sometimes just accessing the site.

**Gesp56** · 09-07-2013, 11:10 PM

I've also had the same issues. Mostly when posting or accessing the site. A few months ago I had really bad problems with it. I wasn't able to access the site for a week.

**Strider199** · 09-07-2013, 11:11 PM

Thanks Korith. I went on the net and did the same word search, got an image of what I was after and tried it with that wording and I didn't get an error.
My first search was : starfish and star fish: which timed out twice.
My second attempt was : Micro brittlestar: which brought me to a bunch of threads.

**wgoldfarb** · 09-08-2013, 01:44 PM

Could it be that a broad search with too many results yields a time out error? I'm not sure how these searches work, but maybe the extra time the server needs to process the large amount of search results is interpreted by the browser as a time out?