Simple search form results template displays system message template [duplicate]

Question

It seems I have a similar problem to the one described in this thread.

You enter a search query and get redirected to the correct URL but the page displays the system message template saying Your search did not return any results instead of redirecting to the no-results template.

Removing the exp:search:search_results tag causes the page to render correctly, but obviously without any search results in it. {exp:search:total_results}{total_results}{/exp:search:total_results} also shows up as 0.

So why doesn't EE redirect to the no-results template if there are no results? Although it doesn't seem to matter what I enter, I get the error message each time.

Template code

Form

{exp:search:simple_form
    channel="blog"
    no_result_page="{segment_1}/search/no-results"
    result_page="{segment_1}/search/results"
    search_in="everywhere"
    where="all"
}
<input type="text" name="keywords">
<input type="submit" value="Go">
{/exp:search:simple_form}

Results

<p>There were <strong>{exp:search:total_results}{total_results}{/exp:search:total_results}</strong> results for a search for <em>{exp:search:keywords}</em>.</p>

<ul class="search-results">
{exp:search:search_results}
    <li>
        <a href="{auto_path}/">{title}</a>
    </li>
{/exp:search:search_results}
</ul>

Answer 1

It's a bug in EE's native Search module. Bug reported here: https://support.ellislab.com/bugs/detail/19828

Here's the fix:

Starting in line 1290 of system/expressionengine/modules/search/mod.search.php

REPLACE

if ($query->num_rows() == 0 OR $query->row('total_results')  == 0)
{
  return ee()->output->show_user_error('off', array(lang('search_no_result')), lang('search_result_heading'));
}

WITH

if ($query->num_rows() == 0 OR $query->row('total_results')  == 0)
{           
  if ($query->row('no_result_page') == "")
  {
    return ee()->output->show_user_error('off', array(lang('search_no_result')), lang('search_result_heading'));
  }
  else
  {
    $path = reduce_double_slashes(ee()->functions->create_url(trim_slashes($this->_meta['no_result_page'])).'/'.$hash.'/');
    ee()->security->restore_xid();
    return ee()->functions->redirect($path);
  }
}