After applying rule rewrite to get cleaner-looking article URL's, my search
no longer works. It appears that the search parameters aren't being passed
in.
If someone has any ideas on why this broke, I'd appreciate it.
Here's my steps to reproduce:
1) I followed the instructions here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Eliminating_index.php_from_the_url#Using_a_re
write_rule_in_a_.htaccess_file
2) My MW 1.4.3 runtime files are stored in a /w directory rather than /wiki,
per the article's assumptions
3) The rewrites all worked fine
4) Article search no longer works. The "Search results" page says:
For query ""
Badly formed search query
We could not process your query. This is probably because you have attempted
to search for a word fewer than three letters long, which is not yet
supported. It could also be that you have mistyped the expression, for
example "fish and and scales". Please try another query.
This only breaks when I try rule rewrite.