Perch Runway Search Blank?

I type something into the search field, hit the submit button, and then the browser navigates to the /search page, but the output on that page is empty without an error. One thing I did notice was that the URL lacked the query suffix of "?q=" after the /search.

Aw jeez, silly mistake. facepalm So, now the URL completes properly and appends the field contents to a ?q=query, but the page has no output at all.

Here's my search field template now

<div id="search">
    <perch:form id="search" method="get" action="/search">
        <perch:input id="q" type="search" placeholder="search by keyword or sku" class="searchfield" /><perch:input type="submit" value="search" class="searchbutton" />
    </perch:form>
</div>

I have some pages in the site and also a test product in the shop. I have been searching directly for a SKU or a keyword from its listing, but it doesn't show up.

Would page content from other pages result in anything? I haven't filtered the search yet - it seems like the template should return with "0 results" instead of just an empty page without the static template pieces.

Instead of showing the page framing from the template and saying there are no results like in this template here, it's completely blank on the page as if the template was not processed.

<perch:before>
    <h1>Search results for &#8220;<perch:search id="search_key" />&#8221;</h1>

    <perch:if exists="paging">
        <p><perch:search id="total" /> results</p>
    </perch:if>
        <ul>
</perch:before>

        <li class="<perch:search id="perch_item_odd" />">
            <h2><a href="<perch:search id="result_url" />"><perch:search id="result_title" /></a></h2>
            <perch:if exists="result_excerpt"><p class="excerpt">&hellip;<perch:search id="result_excerpt" encode="false" />&hellip;</p></perch:if>
            <p><a href="<perch:search id="result_url" />">
                <perch:if exists="result_pageNavText">
                    <perch:search id="result_pageNavText" />
                <perch:else />
                    <perch:search id="result_url" />
                </perch:if>
                </a></p>
        </li>

<perch:after>
    </ul>

    <perch:if exists="paging">
        <div class="paging">
            Page <perch:search id="current_page" /> of <perch:search id="number_of_pages" />
            <perch:if exists="not_first_page">
                <a href="<perch:search id="prev_url" encode="false" />">Previous</a>
            </perch:if>
            <perch:if exists="not_last_page">
                <a href="<perch:search id="next_url" encode="false" />">Next</a>
            </perch:if>
        </div>
    </perch:if>
</perch:after>


<perch:noresults>
    <perch:if exists="search_key">
        <h1>Search results for &#8220;<perch:search id="search_key" />&#8221;</h1>
    <perch:else />
        <h1>Search</h1>
    </perch:if>
    <perch:if exists="search_key">
        <p>Sorry, there are no results for &#8220;<perch:search id="search_key" />&#8221;.</p>
    </perch:if>
</perch:noresults>

I couldn't figure out why debug mode was throwing an error because the file path looked nearly the same - the one difference was that the template called used an underscore, but the actual file used a dash. Good grief, thank you for putting up with my ridiculousness!