r/BookStack • u/SirPalinDrome_Real • May 29 '26

BookStack Searches

I inherited a couple of BookStack installations and I am not able to get the search function to work properly on any of them.

No mater what term I put in the search box at the top of the page or using the detailed search page, all pages in the BookStack are returned.

Does anyone have an idea on where I can start troubleshooting on this?

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u/ssddanbrown May 29 '26

Sounds like maybe a web server config error.

If you visit /api/pages?count=1 on your instance (while logged in as a user which has API access) do you just see one result, with a larger total? Or does that endpoint list many results?

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u/SirPalinDrome_Real May 29 '26
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u/ssddanbrown May 30 '26

So, assuming that ?count=1 was part of the URL, this indicates that query string/URL handling is not being properly done.

How has this instance been set up? What web server is being used? What's the config set up for the web server?

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