simple wordpress form redirection

Question

I am trying to create a simple form on one of my wordpress pages. The code used is as basic as it can be, namely the following:

<form action="" method="GET">
        <select>
            <option value="test" >test</option>

        </select>   
        <input type="submit" value="search">
    </form> 

the problem is, every time i click the search button, i get redirected to the homepage! Shouldn't this small little form be redirected to the page containing the form, since action is empty?

Answer 1

Try

<form action="#" method="GET">

(Although I prefer the POST method.)

Answer 2

Alright guys, believe it or not, but the underlying problem had to do with permissions on the root folder!

the aforementioned <form action="#" method="GET"> didn't work either, so i digged a little deeper, and i found out certain pages couldn't be opened either.

Why this causes every single simple form to be redirected to home is beyond me, but the solution was to change the permissions of the .htaccess file (which WAS present by the way), to 775.

Out of caution i also changed the root folder permission to 775, and all is well now.