title: Sharepoint 2010 - The search request was unable to connect to the Search Service
body: <p>This has been frustrating me for days now. </p>
  
  <p>I am trying to use Sharepoint Search (not Fast), and I just want to be able to enter a search term and have relevant results returned from the site. </p>
  
  <p>So I have gone through setting up a Search App with all the trimmings about 3 times. 
  I can monitor the crawl and its going well.  (Did it once via powershell as well)</p>
  
  <p>So everything seems to be setup on the "server side" 
  I have ensured that the relevant ( I think) Windows Services are running and seems to work.</p>
  
  <p>Now what happens is when I create a Search site on the site I am in, when I execute a search I always get the response "The search request was unable to connect to the Search Service."   And I have not managed to "connect" my search site with the search application it seems. </p>
  
  <p>Now I have looked through the trace log and I have looked through the event logs, and I have failed to find an entry so far that corresponds to the difficulty in "connecting".
  If someone knows of others logs I ought to look at that would be super.</p>
  
  <p>If anyone has an idea of what in the world is going wrong. please let me know.</p>
  
  <p>Our "Farm" is one web front end and one app server.</p>
  
  <p>I have configured one Sharepoint 2010 site before with Search and I did not encounter any of these problems.  I didnt do the install and base configuration of this environment though I am just troubleshooting it.</p>