Search Results Paging Doesn't Work Using Wordpress as 404 Handler

[danrha]

I'm running Wordpress on lighttpd, using server.error-handler-404 = "index.php", all the pretty permalinks work perfectly. However, when doing a search, i only get the first results page, that is mysite.com/?s=query works but mysite.com/page/2/?s=query doesn't (i get shown the home page saying it's on page two of it). Paging on categories, archives and tags works as expected too.

I believe this is a Wordpress error, as the variables are being correctly passed to the script. Strangely mysite.com/index.php/page/2/?s=query works as expected, i have tried exploring the code but i don't really know about the internals of the wordpress core.

i have fixed it, wordpress doesn't look for query strings in the url... i made this function and added it to wp-settings.php and made it run right after wp_unregister_globals

function wp_fix_lighttpd() { checks if URI has parameter and sets globals

if (isset($_GET) && isset($_SERVERQUERY_STRING?)) return;
$donga = explode('?', $_SERVERREQUEST_URI?, 2);
if (count($donga) > 1) {

$_SERVERQUERY_STRING? = $donga[1]; set query string
parse_str($donga[1], $_GET); parse it and set get global
$_REQUEST = array_merge( (array)$_GET, (array)$_REQUEST); set request global

}

}

function wp_fix_lighttpd() { //checks if URI has parameter and sets globals
	if (isset($_GET) && isset($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])) return;
	$donga = explode('?', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], 2);
	if (count($donga) > 1) { 
		$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] = $donga[1];
		parse_str($donga[1], $_GET);
		$_REQUEST = array_merge( (array)$_GET, (array)$_REQUEST);
	}
}

I'm glad you've fixed it for you. Now it needs to be handled for all lighttpd WordPress installs.

Pleae see this ticket as well: #11511. This might be related.

#10458 Code is slightly different, but does the same thing.