???? Please type a search key ????

When I try to search for members or groups, there's no problem.
But when I try to search for a clip, either by name or tag words, I receive this standard system error message:

Please type a search key

What does this mean .... How can I avoid this message .... do I need to "fix" something?
Thank you for your time.

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This is a mod_rewrite problem. In your .htaccess file, do you have the following line in it:

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RewriteRule ^tag/(.*)/(.*) tag.php?search_id=$1&page=$2  [L,QSA]

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It should be after:

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RewriteRule ^view/(.*)/(.*)/ view_video.php?id=$1  [L,QSA]

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but before:

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RewriteRule ^channel/(.*)/(.*)/recent/(.*) video.php?category=recent&chid=$1&page=$3

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Also, is vShare running from the root of your domain (http://www.example.com and not http://www.example.com/vshare)?

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Yup, the string is there and it's in the right place too.

But no, I'm running vshare in its own subdomain all by itself like ...
http://www.supercoolvideoportal.primarytlddomain.de

Any other thoughts?

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Ok, is your subdomain physically located within the document root of the parent domain?

Ex:
/home/domainuser/public_html = http://www.example.com
/home/domainuser/public_html/subdomain = http://subdomain.example.com

Or, are they in completely different locations? If it's the second one, is the .htaccess for that site located in the "public_html" part or the "subdomain" part?

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Okay, I'm not 100% sure if I follow you on this, but it's a bonafide subdomain that's contained within the folder structure of the primary tld.
The precise path works like this: /var/www/virtual/topleveldomain.de/videoportal/htdocs
... where videoportal is the name of the subdomain with the vshare files.

But online the subdomain is accessed, as explained, via www.subdomain.fromtopleveldomain.de

Of course the topleveldomain.de also has its own htdocs folder for just the files that the tld uses.

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Ok, that's what I was wanting to know. In the case of your setup, subdomains are separate from their primary domains (which is not the case everywhere). So, it should be working correctly for you as written. What is your site's URL?

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The homepage of the "realm" if you will: http://www.einfachclicken.de/

The path to the video portal won't work from there though, not until it's done.
At the moment this would get you there ... but every time that you click back
"home" you'll have to use ths link as well until it's all done.

http://www.meineclipshow.einfachclicken.de/index2.php
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Thanks. I have found your problem. You have MultiViews turned on in Apache. You will need to turn off MultiViews for your vShare site. You can do this by editing your .htaccess. Change the top line of your .htaccess file from:

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Options +FollowSymLinks

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To:

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Options +FollowSymLinks -MultiViews

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