Search Page 404 error, when creating custom search form & page from child theme

[John]

I have a search form with this action:

I have a page setup with the necessary slug and a file page-search-results.php where I hope to create a query from the form input, but I get 404 error when I hit the form submit button. I am taken to the expected url (mysite/search-results/) and if I hit edit page from the 404 page I get the edit screen for the page I set up. Any idea why this page fails in the context of a form submission?
thx,
John

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[Jason Bobich]

Hi John,

Does your form use the “s” name value on the input? That’s probably it. Doing anything ?s=example in the URL of your page is already reserved by WordPress.

1) If you’re trying to do a search that builds on what WordPress does and customize it further, then you can’t have a custom page. But you can filter into pre_get_posts and pull in other form values you’ve passed, to modify the default WordPress search query. ?s=example&foo=bar

2) Or, if you’re doing a completely custom query with a custom page, you can’t have an input with name “s” in your form. You need to make it something else. ?my_s=example

But let’s try to keep questions here specifically to Jump Start. This is bit out of the scope of support I can offer you.

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