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Trying to figure out how search works here - any help would be much appreciated!

The search form I have looks like:

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

When I do a search it displays a URL something like: /search/results/7ba617df0e8ed667e99d9e4a51274f77/ but displays the homepage and not the results. Am I missing a step here?

Hi. Sounds like maybe you haven’t created a search/results template group and template yet? Your “results” template should then include your search results tags: http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/modules/search/results.html.

Hope that helps.

Hi, goroboto - I’m a bit late, I think, but welcome to our community!

Ian is correct in that you need a results template (and a no results template if you want, though the system will handle that otherwise); however, you do not need a search template group.  You can set the results template path however you want using the result_page parameter.

Thank you for jumping in, Ian!  goroboto - does that help?