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Not sure what is happening but 

{% set searchQuery = craft.request.getParam('q') %}

Does not seem to be working at all on a different server than staging. Anyone seen this before? Any ideas what could be preventing getParam from working? Here is what the end of my url looks like with the param: results?q=test

I then later try to display the search parameter like.

<h1 class="text-uppercase">Search Results {{searchQuery}}</h1>

But it only displays Search Results leaving the parameter empty... and my search results seem to be returning everything since it is basically doing a wildcard search since I'm using this below to query the matching results...

{% paginate craft.entries.search(searchQuery).order('score').limit(10) as entries %}

Everything works as expected on staging server.

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  • Are you sure getParam is the issue? What happens if you {{ searchQuery }} immediately after {% set searchQuery = craft.request.getParam('q') %}? Does it output test?
    – Brad Bell ♦
    Commented Jun 30, 2015 at 17:19
  • Outputs nothing, just like how its not outputting in the h1 I mentioned.
    – Bowenac
    Commented Jun 30, 2015 at 17:32
  • Maybe some .htaccess rewrite rule that's dropping query strings?
    – Brad Bell ♦
    Commented Jun 30, 2015 at 17:44
  • It sure was, client added some odd rule.
    – Bowenac
    Commented Jul 1, 2015 at 3:26
  • Can you add that as an official answer?
    – Brad Bell ♦
    Commented Jul 1, 2015 at 4:51

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The client must have added a new rule which was causing the problem.

changed from 

RewriteRule (.+) index.php?p=$1 [L]

to 

RewriteRule (.+) index.php [L]

Not exactly sure why they added that but...

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  • I encountered a similar problem. I've been using the letter "p" as part of a search string so www.website.com/test?p=querystring. It worked for more 6 months and now all of a sudden it doesn't work. Thanks to this post I looked in my .htaccess file and see this rewrite rule: RewriteRule (.+) index.php?p=$1 [QSA,L] which was there by default when I installed Craft. I changed my query string parameter to "q" and now it works again. Not sure if something changed when I updated to the latest Craft version or if it's something else.
    – Lori
    Commented Oct 12, 2016 at 18:54

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