Hello, I have an old page indexed by google: mydomain.com/search.php When i click on it, i get a blank page. It’s seems this page, search.php doesn’t work on any discourse instance. Why? Why https://meta.discourse.org/search.php = ko https://meta.discourse.org/search.xyz = ko https://meta.discourse.org/sqd.xyz = ok Is it a bug with the search feature? It’s not really a problem, but it’s strange. Thanks

meta.discourse.org/search.php is routed to a particular route in the application, but that route doesn’t know how to respond to a .php format. This results in a ‘406 - Unacceptable’ response, which Discourse doesn’t really know how to handle. meta.discourse.org/wark.php is not a route in the application, so it’s dropped by the router and returns a 404 - Not Found response, which Discourse knows how to handle. This could be solved by routing 406 responses to the 404 landing page

Discourse doesn’t have a /search.php page, search resides on the /search page.

Thanks @gdpelican for the explanation :slight_smile:

Thanks for the detailed analysis @gdpelican! Should we make this change @sam?

White page on search.php

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sam (Sam Saffron) November 16, 2016, 9:02pm 6

Sure, we should 404 here, fine with me.

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White page on search.php

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