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I’ve found the cause, if not the solution 🙂

I installed a clone on a sub domain and it worked fine.

I has a look at the htaccess file and ithemes security had added some restrictions on the live site, after I removed those the search is working again.

This is what I removed, any suggestions as to what might be interfering with the search would be appreciated, I feel a bit naked without ithemes security!

# BEGIN iThemes Security
	# BEGIN Tweaks
		# Rules to block access to WordPress specific files
		<files .htaccess>
			Order allow,deny
			Deny from all
		</files>
		<files readme.html>
			Order allow,deny
			Deny from all
		</files>
		<files readme.txt>
			Order allow,deny
			Deny from all
		</files>
		<files install.php>
			Order allow,deny
			Deny from all
		</files>
		<files wp-config.php>
			Order allow,deny
			Deny from all
		</files>
		
		# Rules to disable directory browsing
		Options -Indexes
		
		<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
			RewriteEngine On
		
			# Rules to protect wp-includes
			RewriteRule ^wp-admin/includes/ - [F]
			RewriteRule !^wp-includes/ - [S=3]
			RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !^(.*)wp-includes/ms-files.php
			RewriteRule ^wp-includes/[^/]+.php$ - [F]
			RewriteRule ^wp-includes/js/tinymce/langs/.+.php - [F]
			RewriteRule ^wp-includes/theme-compat/ - [F]
		
			# Rules to prevent php execution in uploads
			RewriteRule ^(.*)/uploads/(.*).php(.?) - [F]
		
			# Rules to block unneeded HTTP methods
			RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^(TRACE|DELETE|TRACK) [NC]
			RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [F]
		
			# Rules to block suspicious URIs
			RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ../ [NC,OR]
			RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^.*.(bash|git|hg|log|svn|swp|cvs) [NC,OR]
			RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} etc/passwd [NC,OR]
			RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} boot.ini [NC,OR]
			RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ftp:  [NC,OR]
			RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} http:  [NC,OR]
			RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} https:  [NC,OR]
			RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (<|%3C).*script.*(>|%3E) [NC,OR]
			RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} mosConfig_[a-zA-Z_]{1,21}(=|%3D) [NC,OR]
			RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_encode.*(.*) [NC,OR]
			RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^.*([|]|(|)|<|>|ê|"|;|?|*|=$).* [NC,OR]
			RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^.*("|'|<|>|\|{||).* [NC,OR]
			RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^.*(%24&x).* [NC,OR]
			RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^.*(127.0).* [NC,OR]
			RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^.*(globals|encode|localhost|loopback).* [NC,OR]
			RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^.*(request|concat|insert|union|declare).* [NC]
			RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^loggedout=true
			RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^action=jetpack-sso
			RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !^action=rp
			RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !^.*wordpress_logged_in_.*$
			RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://maps.googleapis.com(.*)$
			RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [F]
		
			# Rules to block foreign characters in URLs
			RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^.*(%0|%A|%B|%C|%D|%E|%F).* [NC]
			RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [F]
		
			# Rules to help reduce spam
			RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST
			RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)wp-comments-post.php*
			RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^(.*)com.au.* 
			RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://jetpack.wordpress.com/jetpack-comment/ [OR]
			RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$
			RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [F]
		</IfModule>
	# END Tweaks
# END iThemes Security

OK, it’s working on localhost, but not at live site, so I guess something needs to be available for it to work? Any idea what I need to turn on?

The localhost install is a clone of the live site, so it isn’t a setting in wp or gd that has changed.

Thank you Stiofan!

So this article is wrong?

http://www.kylejlarson.com/blog/2012/creating-retina-images-for-your-website/

Thanks Guust, I get a 404 from it?

And, I think the image is meant to exist?