# White page on search.php
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/white-page-on-search-php/52969
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 16, 2016, 2:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/white-page-on-search-php/52969 "2016-11-16T14:45:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@gauthier](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gauthier)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2016, 2:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/white-page-on-search-php/52969/1 "2016-11-16T14:45:38Z")
Hello,
I have an old page indexed by google: [mydomain.com/search.php](http://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](https://meta.discourse.org/search.php) = ko
[https://meta.discourse.org/search.xyz](https://meta.discourse.org/search.xyz) = ko
[https://meta.discourse.org/sqd.xyz](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
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2016, 2:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/white-page-on-search-php/52969/2 "2016-11-16T14:55:46Z")
Discourse doesn’t have a `/search.php` page, search resides on the `/search` page.
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### Author:  [@gdpelican](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gdpelican)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2016, 2:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/white-page-on-search-php/52969/3 "2016-11-16T14:55:49Z")
- [meta.discourse.org/search.php](http://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](http://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
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### Author:  [@gauthier](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gauthier)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2016, 3:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/white-page-on-search-php/52969/4 "2016-11-16T15:09:11Z")
Thanks @gdpelican for the explanation :slight_smile:
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2016, 8:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/white-page-on-search-php/52969/5 "2016-11-16T20:27:43Z")
Thanks for the detailed analysis @gdpelican! Should we make this change @sam?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2016, 9:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/white-page-on-search-php/52969/6 "2016-11-16T21:02:18Z")
Sure, we should 404 here, fine with me.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2024, 12:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/white-page-on-search-php/52969/7 "2024-06-08T12:45:17Z")
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