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I’m having difficulties display search results after entering a keyword into a simple search box. I have a template group named “search” with a template called “results” containing the generic code provided in the docs. I’ve also changed the weblog search url address accordingly in the Admin section of my weblog. When I enter a keyword and click submit, it just kicks me back to my home page, it never goes to the search results url.

I’m using a custom index.php page called index-ee.php because the site is in development on a server with an existing site so I can’t use index.php for the main directory. Is it not possible to have search results work if the index.php name is different?

Or what could I be doing incorrectly? Thanks.

Deelicious,

1. To clarify, you are rewriting your URLs via .htaccess?
2. Has this ever worked before?
3. Which version and build of EE is this with?

Thanks for the help Brandon. To answer your questions:

1. No I am not using .htaccess rewrite. When I installed EE I renamed the index.php page to index-ee.php and installed it using index-ee.php when asked the name of the index page.

2. The entire site functions properly, but I’ve never used the search module before this attempt.

3. Version 1.6.8 Build 20090723

Deelicious,

Can we see your simple search box template code please?

What happens if you try and visit your search results template directly?

Sorry I didn’t get a notification you responded!

Here’s the code:

{exp:search:simple_form weblog="blog"}
<input type="text" name="keywords" value="">
<input type="submit" value="Search" class="submit" /></p>
{/exp:search:simple_form}

If I access the results page directly it gives the generic messages “Your search did not return any results.”

By the way, I’ve now launched the website with index.php and I still can’t get the search to redirect to the results page.

Deelicious,

Try adding a result_page parameter for your custom results page and let us know if that works for you.

{exp:search:simple_form weblog="blog" result_page="search/results"}
<input type="text" name="keywords" value="">
<input type="submit" value="Search" class="submit" /></p>
{/exp:search:simple_form}

Thanks for the suggestion John, but adding the parameter didn’t work. Just to clarify, I have a template group called “search” with a page called “results”. I deleted the original search group, so I’m hoping this is the correct names for these items. I also copied the code in the docs for the results page.

Deelicious, are you able to upgrade to 1.6.9?

Yup, just upgraded to 1.6.9, still giving me the same issues.

Deelicious,

Can you share a link to your website so we can have a look?

Just PM’d you. Thanks!

Deelicious,

What extensions do you have installed?

None.

Hi, Deelicious - it looks like you are forcing the addition of “www” in the URL - if you stop doing that, does your search work?  This type of redirection is a common reason for this symptom.

I removed the www redirect in my .htaccess file and that did the trick! Thanks for the continual support John and Lisa!