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1. ben_daniels
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I have noticed that on all my WP blogs the search function does not work properly. Namely, if I search for some keyword that appears in many posts (so that all results can't fit onto one page), I will get the first page of results and this page is OK.

   But when I click "Previous entries" at the bottom of that page in order to get the second page of results with that particular keyword, I get the following error:

   -----------------------------
   No Results Found

   The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.
   -----------------------------

   Perhaps I should point out that the first page of results has the correct URL format, such as (assuming I was searching for the keyword "cloud"):

   http://www.mydomain.com/?s=cloud

   However, the second page of results (the link "Previous entries") has the following format:

   http://www.mydomain.com/page/2/?s=cloud?s=cloud

   this appears on the status line in the browser when I put the cursor on the link. But if I copy the link and paste it into notepad, the URL looks like this:

   http://www.roughstraightmen.com/page/2/?s=cloud%3Fs%3Dcloud

   Could someone help me fix this problem?

2. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Have you tried:

   - deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem? If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).

   - switching to the default theme to rule out any theme-specific problems?

3. ben_daniels
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I have just tried both things you suggested and unfortunatelly it didn't help. I think this issue is due to WordPress itself.

   The only thing that comes to mind is that I changed Permalinks and .htaccess accordingly. The new permalinks settings work well, even for older posts to which visitors are referred from Google. I did it with the help of the plugin called "Dean's Permalinks Migration".

   However I don't think this should affect the search function.

4. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Try resetting your custom permalinks back to the default setting and deleting/renaming your WordPress .htaccess file. If this works, then rset your custom permalink structure back up again.

5. HeliR
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   I needed the line DirectoryIndex index.php, this line disappeared in my htaccess without my doing (plugin?)

   # BEGIN WordPress
   DirectoryIndex index.php
   <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
   </IfModule>
   # END WordPress

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