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I’m building a site using v2.7.2 - Build Date: 20131008. My simple search is set up like this:

{exp:search:simple_form channel="gallery" search_in="entries" result_page="search/gallery_results" no_result_page="content/not_found"}
        <h2>Search the Image Collections:</h2>

<p>                <br />
        <input type="text" name="keywords" id="keywords" placeholder="Enter keywords" size="22" maxlength="100" class="search"></p>

<p>        <input type="submit" class="go_button" value="Search"  ><br />
    <br />
{/exp:search:simple_form}

If I type in a valid search term, it all works fine. But if I type in a term that yields no results, my template doesn’t appear. Instead I get the standard “Search Results: Your search did not return any results. Return to Previous Page.” When I tap “return” and enter a new search term, I get: “The following errors were encountered. The action you have requested is invalid. Return to Previous Page.”

The no_result template is in template_group/template format.

Typically, when I’ve encountered an EE component that isn’t working, I’ve coded something incorrectly, but I can’t see my mistake on this one.

Hmm seems weird - your code looks good, the only thing you could try is to add a ‘/’ at the start of the template paths e.g.

{exp:search:simple_form channel="gallery" search_in="entries" result_page="/search/gallery_results" no_result_page="/content/not_found"}

Indeed, very weird, DigitalDoctors. I originally had the slash in place, but it didn’t work that way, either. Also, the URL says it’s showing the correct no_result_page template (mysite.com/content/not_found), but the template itself is the standard one packaged with EE, not the one I designed.

Thanks for the advice, though.

Solved this problem.

It wasn’t my simple search form coding, it was in the no_result_page coding. I tried to include this:

{exp:search:keywords}

as part of my template.

The docs are not clear as to how this tag works, and it didn’t work as a stand alone, so I wrapped it in:

{exp:search:search_results}
          {exp:search:keywords}
{/exp:search:search_results}

which is how the keywords display on the result_page template. However, the search_results tag is what caused all the confusion, so I went with this on the no_result_page instead:

{exp:search:keywords}
          {exp:search:keywords}
{/exp:search:keywords}

and all is well with the world.