NavBar searches failing; dropping slash in URL

Hi Robert,

Thanks for writing - unfortunately this is a known bug that
hasn't
been fixed yet. (meaning, externally-publishing blogs whose
URLs end
in a filename, rather than a /). The workaround is to
disable the
NavBar, which I see you've done.

I've asked one of our engineers to raise the priority on it,
and will
let you know once it's been fixed. In the meantime you can
roll your
own search box, like we've done on the Google Blog(s):

<h3>Search the Google Blog</h3>
        <form action="http://www.google.
com/search" method="get">
          <input name="sitesearch"
value="googleblog.blogspot.com"
type="hidden">
          <input name="q" size="15"
type="text">
          <input value="Go"
name="submit" type="submit">
        </form>

(though this would probably search your entire site, not
necessarily
your blog specifically)

Thanks for your patience,
-E


On 12/27/05, Robert J. Sawyer <robertjsawyergmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have enabled the NavBar on my blog, which is
published by Blogger but
> hosted on my website, but all searches are failing. If
I do a search on
> "Wilson" (a term with DOES appear in my blog)
the NavBar finds nothing,
> and reports that it's doing this search:
>
> Wilson blogurl:sfwriter.comblog.htm
>
> Of course, that's wrong; it should be
>
> Wilson blogurl:sfwriter.com/blog.htm
>
> (with a slash between sfwriter.com and blog.htm).
>
> On my Blogger dashboard Settings|Publishing page, I've
specified the
> domain name WITH the slash:
>
> Blog URL:  http://sfwriter.com/blog
.htm
> Blog Filename:  blog.htm
>
> I can't find anywhere else that the domain name is
specified on its
> own, so I'm not sure what sources the NavBar is
concatenating to get
> "sfwriter.comblog.htm".  What can I do to
make sure the NavBar executes
> the search request properly?
>
> (I want to keep http://sfwriter.com/blog
.htm as the location of my
> blog, because I've had an online diary at that URL for
years, although
> I'm switching over to Blogger to produce it.)
>
> Many thanks!
>
> Robert J. Sawyer
>
>
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