Search not working

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JustDucky923 Ecommerce Template Guru USA 1332 Posts	Posted - 02/06/2020 : 09:40:58 I've recently converted an old Dreamweaver site to a new WordPress site. Most things are working well. I just noticed that the ECT search bar that I have in the header of every page does not work on every page. If I search from the home page, the search works fine. If I'm on any other page in the site, I get a "Page Not Found" error -- except the store pages themselves. I can search from the "Cart" page for instance. I can see from URL when I try and search from one of the other WordPress pages that it is using the current name of the page and then adding the "search.php" -- for instance if I search from the "About Us" page - here is the URL: https://www.alkydigger.net/about-us/search.php The search widget is placed into the header on the "Widgets" page using an ECT Search widget, using simple text, and showing on all pages. Any ideas?
Vince Administrator 42466 Posts	Posted - 02/15/2020 : 03:03:42 Hi JustDucky923 I'm sorry if this got missed but if you look in the themename/header.php file for the <form> tag for that search, the action will probably be... search.php Can you change that to... /search.php and that should sort this out. Vince Click Here for Shopping Cart Software Click Here to sign up for our newsletter Click Here for the latest updater
JustDucky923 Ecommerce Template Guru USA 1332 Posts	Posted - 02/18/2020 : 13:36:17 I searched through the header.php file - but there is no mention of "search" at all. This is a custom theme and I've added the ECT search widget using a custom widget area in the header and then placing the ECT Search Widget in that place. Is there somewhere else I could look? Or maybe I'm not understanding your answer correctly.
Vince Administrator 42466 Posts	Posted - 02/19/2020 : 01:00:34 Well, how about another approach then, in the header.php just after the opening <head> tag add... <?php echo '<base href="' . site_url('/') . '" />'; ?> What is happening is that the pages sees a URL like yoursite.com/about-us ...as a subdirectory so relative links to go yoursite.com/about-us/relative-link But the above code will indicate the correct location. Vince Click Here for Shopping Cart Software Click Here to sign up for our newsletter Click Here for the latest updater
JustDucky923 Ecommerce Template Guru USA 1332 Posts	Posted - 02/19/2020 : 08:36:12 That worked! I'm curious why I had to add that line? I have dozens of WordPress sites and I've never encountered that problem before. Any explanation as to why?
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