Page is coming up with a 'software error' message

  • ybim

    (@ybim)


    10 years, 1 month ago

    We had a ‘News’ page on one of the websites, which showed all posts. Today it started to play up with the following message

    Software error:

    Can’t locate configuration/configuration.pl in @inc (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib64/perl5 /usr/local/share/perl5 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 .) at ksearch.cgi line 39.
    For help, please send mail to the webmaster (root@localhost), giving this error message and the time and date of the error.

    I deleted the page as I needed to update it anyway and installed a new ‘News’ page.

    (Incidentally, I couldn’t find how to make this a ‘posts’ page – I only had the option to change it to ‘archives’ template. I would appreciate advice on how to resolve this issue also.)

    I set the page up and put it on the menus and it came back with the same message. This is the page.

    http://www.yourbusinessinmind.com/news/

    Is there something obvious (or less obvious) that I should be doing?

    Thanks!

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  • Gary Pendergast

    (@pento)

    10 years, 1 month ago

    Hi there!

    This isn’t a WordPress error, it’s coming from your search tool, called ksearch.pl. This error is probably appearing because there’s a news folder on your website – WordPress will default to loading folders if they exist, so that it plays nicely with external tools.

    If you’re not using this search tool, I’d recommend SFTPing to your site and removing or renaming the news folder, so that WordPress can use that URL instead.

    For your other question, you can make this the Posts page by going to your WordPress Dashboard, navigating to Settings -> Reading, then selecting the correct page from the “Posts page” dropdown.

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