if searchbox not set to yahoo or google you get a 404

[Brian Murray]

If your home page is set to about:startpage and your search dropdown box is not set to yahoo or firefox you'll end up receiving a 404. The content of which follows:

The requested URL /11.04/Wikipedia (en)/ was not found on the server.

This should probably be redirected to one of the search providers.

[Nagy Ferenc László (nfl)]

Same here. Google and Yahoo works, others don't. If I install "Intranet Bugzilla" search service provider, then about:startpage wants to access http://start.ubuntu.com/11.04/Intranet Bugzilla/. I did not even realize until this error message that Ubuntu start page phones home.

[Martin Albisetti (beuno)]

I've filed the RT to fix this, hope to get it out there within the next day or two.
I apologise for the embarrassingly long time it took me to fix this.

[Lungten Wangchuk (lungten)]

The beta 2 of Ubuntu AMD64 (11.10) desktop has Ask.com as the only search engine in the search engine toolbar. And I am faced with the 404 error.

[kratt (kratt)]

Same for me....32bit version of 11.10.
Happened after i ran updates this morning.

[Björn Dahlgren (bjodah)]

Just updated 11.04 -> 11.10 beta 2

Firefox starts with url: about:startpage showing

Not Found

The requested URL /11.04/Ask.com/ was not found on this server.

the only search provider selectable is ask.com.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

I am still affected by this bug report. What is the status of it?

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Any progress on this? It's really annoying.

[Martin Albisetti (beuno)]

This works for some releases: http://start.ubuntu.com/11.10/Wiki/
But not others: http://start.ubuntu.com/12.04/Wiki/

This is change needed in apache, so I have filed an internal request as RT#50515.