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So, I think I’m missing something really simple but I can’t seem to get the search results go anywhere besides the site domain. 

So when I use a template that has a form:

{exp:search:simple_form channel="subpage_content" form_id="testform" result_page="search/index"}
        
                <label for="keywords">Search:</label>

                <input type="text" name="keywords" id="keywords" value="" size="18" maxlength="100">
        
        
                <a href="http://{path=search/index}">Advanced Search</a>
        
        <input type="submit" value="submit" class="submit"></p>
{/exp:search:simple_form}

it just goes to domain.com instead of domain.com/search/index.

I’ve tried doing the following:
- removing the .htaccess
- setting the channel search result url to /search/index
- made sure the search module is installed
- also made sure the template /search/index is in place.

Is there anything else I could try?

For what it’s worth, I tried viewing the search log (under Tools > Logs) and nothing is even recorded there. So, I’m guessing the actual request isn’t even making it to be searched.

Has anyone else ran into this?

Have you tried adding a no_result_page?

{exp:search:simple_form channel="subpage_content" form_id="testform" result_page="search/index" no_result_page="search/no_results"}

It might be that there’s no results to display and you haven’t supplied a no result page which is causing it to load the domain (I’m guessing that the ‘search/no_results’ just gets appended to the domain name when the redirect occurs).

Hi there,

Unfortunately, that didn’t seem to make a difference.  Here’s a question: is there a way to force a result using the browsers address bar? For instance, shouldn’t I be able to “force” a result by typing in domainname.com/search/results/?keywords=abcdefg
?

Thanks for your guidance and advice

Lack of responses are starting to make me real nervous.  Does anyone have this working?  Are there alternatives to the stock search module I should look into?

Here’s what I use:

{exp:search:simple_form channel="channel_to_search" result_page='/search/results' no_result_page='/search/no-results'}
 
  <input type="text" name="keywords" id="keywords" class='inputbox' value="" size="18" maxlength="100">
  <input type="submit" value="Search" class="but" />
 
{/exp:search:simple_form}

You need to make sure you have the search template group set up and the results and no-results templates inside that group.

Other than that, short of logging in and having a look at your setup there’s not much I can do to help you sorry.

Well, I figured out what the problem is. I currently have an “under construction page” index.html while I’m updating the site.  Obviously, this doesn’t work well with search.  As soon as I renamed it to temporary-index.html, search works. Very interesting.

Oh well, anwyays, I’m glad everything seems to be working just fine now.  Thanks for the help!