This article explains how to configure an enterprise search in a SharePoint 2013 site. Look at the following points.
Step 1
Go to theSite Contents Menu.
![Site Contents]()
Step 2
Click new subsite under Subsites.
![new Subsite]()
Step 3
On clicking new subsite, the following screen will appear.
![click new Subsite]()
Step 4
Enter the name of the Title and select Enterprise Search center template in the Enterprise selection.
![Enterprise selection]()
Step 5
Click the Create button.
![Create button]()
Step 6
The following screen will appear.
![Search]()
Step 7
Copy the URL and paste in Notepad.
Step 8
Go to the Site Settings Menu.
![Go to Site Settings]()
Step 9
Click Search Settings under the Search Menu item.
![Search Menu item]()
Step 10
The following screen will appear.
![Search Settings]()
Step 11
Paste the URL into the search center URL TextBox. The
URL will be in the following format.
![URL text box]()
Step 12
Uncheck the
"Use the same results page settings as my parent" checkbox and check "
Send queries to a custom results page URL" item. The URL looks as in the following:
![Url looks]()
Step 13
Click the OK button.
![Click Ok button]()
Step 14
Just go and check
“Use the same results page settings as my parent” is selected from the subsite search site settings.
![site settings]()
Summary
In this article we saw how to configure enterprise search in a SharePoint 2013 site.