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I’ve got a standard .htaccess file set up on my site to remove index.php:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
        RewriteEngine On

        # Removes index.php
        RewriteCond $1 !\.(gif|jpe?g|png)$ [NC]
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
        RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]

        # If 404s, "No Input File" or every URL returns the same thing
        # make it /index.php?/$1 above (add the question mark)
</IfModule>

As soon as this was set up, the EE Simple Search Form I had running fine on my site stopped working - clicking the search submit button now redirects to the site homepage instead of the search results page.

If I remove .htaccess and reset the name of the site homepage to index.php, the search works again.

Is there any way to get simple search working on a site without index.php?

Here’s my search code:

{exp:search:simple_form result_page="search/results" no_result_page="search/no-results" results="10"}
<label for="keywords">Search:</label>

<input type="text" name="keywords" id="keywords" value="" size="18" maxlength="100">
<input type="submit" value="submit" class="submit">
{/exp:search:simple_form}

Any help gratefully received!

Simple search works fine for me if I use this .htaccess rule:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
        RewriteEngine On
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
        RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
        RewriteRule (.*) index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

There’s only one time I’ve seen the behavior you are describing, and that was when I had a temporary index.html page fronting the website (during development). That gets in the way, so you have to delete it temporarily to make sure the search fucntionality is working.

You star Ralph!

I have got a temporary index.html (holding) page on the site. I deleted it and the search works.

I just didn’t think to try that, so thanks!

Pete