News Search Form returns 404 &cHash empty

[Tonyt8]

Bug Report

Current Behavior Using the News Search form: I enter a search term, click "start search". I receive a Page Not Found The page did not exist or was inaccessible. Reason: Request parameters could not be validated (&cHash empty)

Expected behavior/output To return a list of news items that use the word entered in the search term.

Environment

• TYPO3 version: 12.4.8
• news version: 11.2.0
• The Official TYPO3 Introduction Package
• bootstrap_package version: 14.0.7
• Is your TYPO3 installation set up with Composer (Composer Mode): no
• OS: Windows 11 and 10

Possible Solution I have no idea

Additional context I have tried using many different route enhancers options. I have not found anything to solve the issue. With older versions of news and Typo3 with a similar set up as this I have used the news search form many time with success. To test this issue I setup a clean Typo3 install. Using Typo3 12.4.8 I setup an empty site. Next: with extension manager, installed the The Official TYPO3 Introduction Package. Next: with extension manager, installed the news extension. Only using the default language I added some news categories and news tags. I added a few news items using the categories and tags I had previously made Set up some news pages and storage in the standard way. List and detail pages work perfectly. The human readable URL's work nicely. I set up a news search page, to which I added the news search form plugin and the news search results plugin to the page. I also tested by sending the search form results to a separate news search results page with the news search results plugin both version gave the same 404 Page Not Found. I tried various route enhancers options. I'm stuck and don't know what to try next. Can you help?

Thanks. Regards, Tony

[zkrechowiec]

Hi, I also have the problem with version 11.3.0 of News Have you found a fix?

Thanks, Zoïa

[SventB]

@Tonyt8 @zkrechowiec Problem is: News template uses method="get":

<n:searchForm object="{search}" name="search" pageUid="{settings.listPid}" method="get">

Just remove this attribute and method will be "post":

<n:searchForm object="{search}" name="search" pageUid="{settings.listPid}">

Caused by TYPO3 CMS setting

$GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['FE']['pageNotFoundOnCHashError'] = true;

Also wrong in current version: https://github.com/georgringer/news/blob/main/Resources/Private/Templates/News/SearchForm.html#L12 FYI @georgringer

[crinis]

@Tonyt8 @zkrechowiec TYPO3 throws that error when there is no cHash available AND the given GET-Parameters are not excluded from cHash comparison.

You could therefore set $GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['FE']['cacheHash']['excludedParameters'][] = '^tx_news_pi1[search]'; in your extensions ext_localconf.php to exclude all parameters starting with above string from the cHash comparison. This should preserve parameters used for filtering results in the URL compared to using POST.

[Tonyt8]

Hi SventB and Crinis,

Thank you to you both for your help and advice which I will try. Regards, Tony

[Tonyt8]

Hi SventB and Crinis, To confirm the news search worked well after I followed your instructions. Thank you very much for your help. Tony

[einpraegsam]

Same here for news 11.4.1 with TYPO3 12.4.10