I've been using the Sandbox template set to run my "Perl Hacks" blog over at http://perlhacks.com/.
Today I noticed that the search results pages had no styling on them at all. See, for example, http://perlhacks.com/mt/mt-search.cgi?search=rpm&IncludeBlogs=1.
On further investigation, I see that this is probably because I have no search results template. I'm not sure how it went missing. It's in the original zip file that I downloaded and in the plugins/Sandbox/templates/sandbox/ directory. It just appears to be missing from the mt_templates table in the database.
Is there an easy way for me to fix this issue? Can I manually insert the relevant row into the mt_templates table? Or is it more complex than that?
And whilst we're discussing Sandbox, is it still being maintained? It hasn't been updated since September 2008. Also, I'm holding off updating this blog to MT5 as I'm worried about compatibility with the Sandbox templates.
Thanks for your help.
Dave..
Reported on Movable Type 4.3
Hi Dave,
The sandbox theme contains a template called "search_results.mhtml".
Are you sure that when you look from the backend at blog id 1, system templates there is no search results template?
If that is the case, you could try to edit the following file from inside your MT cgi-bin folder:
/search_templates/default.tmpl
Editing that template should solve your issue!
As for the search results system template at the blog level, about 2 years ago I've seen such an odd thing with a movable type v3.x installation upgraded by somebody else to v4.x.
The way I've fixed it at that time was to code a custom plugin which to refresh the system templates based on the default ones from that very mt release.
Kind Regards,
Mihai Bocsaru
I had this problem when I upgraded to 5.0. The trick is to go into your MySQL server, find the template that's pointing to a non-existent location, and edit the template location. I haven't found any other way.