# Navigating directly to search page does not work

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/navigating-directly-to-search-page-does-not-work/104774
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [December 20, 2018, 3:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/navigating-directly-to-search-page-does-not-work/104774 "2018-12-20T15:30:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![MrBug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bbe5ce/32.png) [@MrBug](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MrBug)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2018, 3:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/navigating-directly-to-search-page-does-not-work/104774/1 "2018-12-20T15:30:54Z")

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Going directly to search page, like  
[https://meta.discourse.org/search](https://meta.discourse.org/search)  
Gives:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/1/f/1f46639c262c945eeecadf4847e542015d20070b.png)

Fix plz?  
Noone noticed this? Its been like this for two days…

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### Author: ![jomaxro](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jomaxro/32/126216_2.png) [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2018, 3:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/navigating-directly-to-search-page-does-not-work/104774/2 "2018-12-20T15:32:12Z")

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Good catch! Looks like a routing issue. Loading [Search results for '' - Discourse Meta](https://meta.discourse.org/search?expanded=true) works, but opening it in a new tab doesn’t.

~~Could this be Ember 3 related @j.jaffeux? Timing lines up.~~

Nevermind, I just checked a site without Ember 3.

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### Author: ![vinothkannans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/vinothkannans/32/86465_2.png) [@vinothkannans](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vinothkannans)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2018, 4:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/navigating-directly-to-search-page-does-not-work/104774/5 "2018-12-20T16:15:00Z")

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This is fixed by the commit

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/e7e4074856c71af7e9dca640f4473886e3d29f3b](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/e7e4074856c71af7e9dca640f4473886e3d29f3b)

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2018, 2:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/navigating-directly-to-search-page-does-not-work/104774/6 "2018-12-21T02:53:56Z")

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