After upgrading to pMachine 2.4 Pro.  Seems to be fine, except for I get no results from my search form ... that has worked like a champ until upgrade.  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
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How about a link to your site?  What version did you update from?

This certainly isn’t a general issue since plenty of other people (myself included) have v2.4 sites with working search features.

http://www.greygotee.com/

I upgraded from 2.3 ...

The only part of the upgrade I felt uncertain about was the comparison of the old and new config files.

I did backup the entire site prior to upgrade.  I appreciate any advice.

Oh yes, I get the messasge
... “Invalid Secure Form Value”

I found this on another entry ...

Secure Forms is a preference under General Preferences, but it is a global setting so if you set that to ‘no’ it turns it off for all forms.

I did this and now my search works ... but, am I taking a chance that my site can be hacked?
I feel a little like I’m treating the symptom and not the problem ... why did this happen?

The “Secure Forms” option inserts a “security hash” in your page (and the database) when you view it.  Then, when you submit a form (say, the search form), pMachine compares the submitted security hash to the one stored in the database.  If they match then the form is accepted.  If they don’t match then you get the error message you mentioned.

Now, the other thing here is that the security hashes are only valid for a limited time (2 hours, I believe).  If you load your page, leave it sitting there for a few hours, and then try a search, you’ll be submitting a security hash that has expired.  I run into that all the time since I leave my own site open in a browser window.  To fix it, simply refresh your page before you enter the search terms and submit.  Refreshing the page will generate a new security hash and you’ll be good to go.