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1. Christine
   Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi there,
   Someone pointed out to me that my search form on one of my sites was exposing the index.php. My search results were being displayed as http://www.domainname.ca/index.php?s=crap&sbutt=Go

   I was using this:

   <form id="searchform" method="get" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>">

   and switched to this:

   <form id="searchform" method="get" action="<?php bloginfo('siteurl'); ?>">

   and now my search results appear as http://www.domainname.ca/?s=crap&sbutt=Go which I'm told is much better. But I can't figure out why. Why is removing the index.php from the url important? Can anyone point me to a document or a link explaining this? I searched on Google, but can't find anything.

2. Tzaddi
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Sorry I can't answer this; it confuses me to. Since every WordPress install has an index.php I don't see why having it show up in the URL would be a problem. It's not like the file is top-secret :-D

   Really curious to hear what others who are more security-savvy than me have to say.

3. Otto
   Tech Ninja
   Posted 2 years ago #

   There is no security risk there. Use whatever looks better to you.

   Also, you can get rid of the sbutt=Go by removing the "sbutt" name from the search button form. That might look even better, really.

4. Christine
   Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thanks for the answers guys. I should ask the person who mentioned this to me to clarify. As long as it's not a security issue, then I'm happy.

   Cheers

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