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When I submit a search page it ultimately results in an URL such as:

http://mysite.com/search/results/f08b67a2424d1196308191a24a6f8d86/

.. as I have set the result page to be /search/results.

However, if I have the following rewrite in effect (to always add ‘home’ to the URL if no location name is provided):

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}      ^/$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^/(.*)              <a href="http://www.mysite.com/home">http://www.mysite.com/home</a> [L]

.. the search result page gets disabled: when I submit the search I end up to the home URL. Looking at the rewrite logs Apache mod_rewrite is matching a blank URI, i.e. just ‘/’, and so it gets redirected to ‘/home’. Yet when I disable the above rule the search result page (at a similar URL I mentioned above) is displayed. Why is this and is there some way to get around this?

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Thanks!

The search form will actually POST to http://mysite.com/index.php or http://mysite.com/ if you remove the index.php by some means and redirect form there to http://mysite.com/search/results/f08...

That has to be taken into account.

That explains why the URL disappears. Since the “result_page” variable doesn’t change the POST target, is there some other way to do so?

Thanks for the info!

Probably not without hacks or a custom search module/plugin.

If my memory serves me right there are no hooks in the search module.

Thanks for the assist, silenz.

Ville, as silenz mentioned, it looks like you’re going to have to use some other method to achieve your goals. We don’t officially support the removal of index.php via .htaccess. Moving to HowTo for additional community support.