From 0150180a43df91ded692d222728f2aa1e5724671 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Karlsson <35727626+dvdksn@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2026 17:56:53 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] site: remove /search page, redirect to homepage

The search functionality is now handled entirely by the modal.

Assisted-By: cagent
---
 content/_index.md            |   2 +
 content/search.md            |   7 --
 layouts/_default/search.html | 191 -----------------------------------
 3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 198 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 content/search.md
 delete mode 100644 layouts/_default/search.html

diff --git a/content/_index.md b/content/_index.md
index 7de643bad9..b49f900340 100644
--- a/content/_index.md
+++ b/content/_index.md
@@ -2,4 +2,6 @@
 title: Home
 description: Docker Documentation is the official Docker library of resources, manuals, and guides to help you containerize applications.
 keywords: Docker, documentation, manual, guide, reference, api, samples
+aliases:
+  - /search/
 ---
diff --git a/content/search.md b/content/search.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 59f5903bbb..0000000000
--- a/content/search.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
----
-title: Search
-layout: search
-params:
-  sitemap: false
-  icon: search
----
diff --git a/layouts/_default/search.html b/layouts/_default/search.html
deleted file mode 100644
index 3192eaadaa..0000000000
--- a/layouts/_default/search.html
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,191 +0,0 @@
-{{ define "left" }}{{ partial "sidebar/mainnav.html" . }}{{ end }} {{ define
-"main" }}
-<article class="prose dark:prose-invert max-w-none">
-  <h1 class="py-4">{{ .Title }}</h1>
-  {{ .Content }}
-  <div class="not-prose">
-    <div class="flex flex-col items-center justify-between gap-8 lg:flex-row">
-      <input
-        type="search"
-        id="search-page-input"
-        class="ring-3-gray-light-200 dark:ring-3-gray-dark-400 dark:bg-background-dark focus:ring-3-blue-light dark:focus:ring-3-blue-dark ring-3-[1.5px] outline-hidden w-full min-w-0 rounded-sm bg-white px-4 py-2 lg:max-w-xl"
-        placeholder="Search…"
-        tabindex="0"
-      />
-      <div class="flex items-center gap-2">
-        <p class="text-sm text-gray-600 dark:text-gray-400">
-          Not finding what you're looking for? Try
-        </p>
-        <button
-          onclick="askAI('search-page-input')"
-          class="topbar-button open-kapa-widget"
-        >
-          <span>Ask&nbsp;AI</span>
-          <span class="icon-svg">
-            {{ partial "utils/svg.html" "/icons/sparkle.svg" }}
-          </span>
-        </button>
-      </div>
-    </div>
-    <hr class="border-divider-light dark:border-divider-dark" />
-    <div id="search-page-results">
-      <!-- results -->
-    </div>
-  </div>
-</article>
-<script type="module">
-  // Global variable to hold the pagefind module
-  let pagefind;
-
-  // Initialize the pagefind module and fire a search if the query parameter exists
-  window.addEventListener("load", async function () {
-    // Hydrate pagefind
-    pagefind = await import("/pagefind/pagefind.js");
-    await pagefind.options({
-      ranking: {
-        termFrequency: 0.2,
-        pageLength: 0.75,
-        termSaturation: 1.4,
-        termSimilarity: 6.0,
-      },
-    });
-
-    // Get the query parameter from the URL
-    const urlParams = new URLSearchParams(window.location.search);
-    const query = urlParams.get("q");
-
-    // If no query parameter is set, return
-    if (!query) {
-      return;
-    }
-
-    const searchInput = document.getElementById("search-page-input");
-
-    // Set the value of the input field to the query parameter
-    searchInput.value = query;
-
-    // Trigger the input event to simulate user typing
-    const event = new Event("input", {
-      bubbles: true,
-      cancelable: true,
-    });
-    // Trigger the input event for the search input
-    searchInput.dispatchEvent(event);
-    searchInput.focus();
-  });
-
-  const searchPageInput = document.querySelector("#search-page-input");
-  const searchPageResults = document.querySelector("#search-page-results");
-
-  // onPageSearch returns 10 results per query
-  async function onPageSearch(e) {
-    pagefind.init();
-    const query = e.target.value;
-
-    // Set the query parameter in the URL
-    const params = new URLSearchParams(document.location.search);
-    params.set("q", query);
-
-    // Default the current page to 1
-    let currentPage = 1;
-
-    // Check if the page parameter exists
-    const page = params.get("page");
-    // Calculate the range start based on the page parameter
-    if (page) {
-      currentPage = parseInt(page);
-    }
-    const rangeStart = (currentPage - 1) * 10;
-    const rangeEnd = rangeStart + 10;
-
-    // Execute the search
-    const search = await pagefind.debouncedSearch(query);
-    // If no search results are found, exit
-    if (search === null) {
-      return;
-    } else {
-      // total number of results
-      const resultsLength = search.results.length;
-      // Get the data for the search results
-      // Slice the results based on the range start + 10
-      const resultsData = await Promise.all(
-        search.results.slice(rangeStart, rangeEnd).map((r) => r.data()),
-      );
-      // If the range does not have any results, display a message
-      if (resultsData.length === 0) {
-        searchPageResults.innerHTML = `<div class="p-4">No results found</div>`;
-        return;
-      }
-      // Add an index to the results, for heap tracking
-      const results = resultsData.map((item, index) => ({
-        ...item,
-        index: index + 1,
-      }));
-
-      // If the query is not empty, display the search results container
-      if (query) {
-        searchPageResults.classList.remove("hidden");
-      } else {
-        searchPageResults.classList.add("hidden");
-      }
-
-      // Generate the search results HTML
-      let resultsHTML = `<div class="text-gray-400 dark:text-gray-500 p-2">${resultsLength} results</div>`;
-
-      // Map results to HTML
-      resultsHTML += results
-        .map((item) => {
-          return `<div class="p-4">
-<div class="flex flex-col">
-  <span class="text-gray-400 dark:texty-gray-dark text-sm">${item.meta.breadcrumbs}</span>
-  <a class="link" style="word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: anywhere;" href="${item.url}" data-query="${query}" data-index="${item.index}">${item.meta.title}</a>
-  <p class="text-black dark:text-white overflow-hidden" style="word-break: break-word; overflow-wrap: anywhere;">…${item.excerpt}…</p>
-</div>
-</div>`;
-        })
-        .join("");
-      // If the results length is greater than 10, display links to show more results
-      if (resultsLength > 10) {
-        resultsHTML += `<hr class="border-divider-light dark:border-divider-dark">`;
-        resultsHTML += `<ul class="flex flex-wrap gap-1 pt-4 pb-8 justify-center text-sm">`;
-        for (let i = 1; i <= resultsLength / 10; i++) {
-          if (i == currentPage) {
-            resultsHTML += `<li class="flex items-center justify-center">
-                 <a href="/search/?q=${query}&page=${i}" class="pagination-link bg-gray-200 dark:bg-gray-800 dark:text-gray-200">${i}</a>
-              </li>`;
-          } else {
-            resultsHTML += `<li class="flex items-center justify-center">
-                <a href="/search/?q=${query}&page=${i}" class="pagination-link bg-gray-100 dark:bg-gray-900 dark:text-gray-400">${i}</a>
-              </li>`;
-          }
-        }
-        resultsHTML += `</ul>`;
-      }
-
-      searchPageResults.innerHTML = resultsHTML;
-    }
-  }
-
-  searchPageInput.addEventListener("input", (e) => onPageSearch(e));
-
-  // Event delegation for tracking link clicks
-  if (window.heap !== undefined) {
-    searchPageResults.addEventListener("click", function (event) {
-      if (event.target.tagName === "A" && event.target.closest(".link")) {
-        const searchQuery = event.target.getAttribute("data-query");
-        const resultIndex = event.target.getAttribute("data-index");
-        const url = new URL(event.target.href);
-        const properties = {
-          docs_search_target_path: url.pathname,
-          docs_search_target_title: event.target.textContent,
-          docs_search_query_text: searchQuery,
-          docs_search_target_index: resultIndex,
-          docs_search_source_path: window.location.pathname,
-          docs_search_source_title: document.title,
-        };
-        heap.track("Docs - Search - Click - Result Link", properties);
-      }
-    });
-  }
-</script>
-{{ end }}