Woocommerce Custom Shop Page (archive-product.php) and Search Results Page

I have created a custom shop page by copying the archive-product.php page into mytheme/woocommerce/archive-product.php. Everything is working fine with that.

However, if I search anything, underneath the ‘custom content’ on the page it displays:

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No products were found matching your selection.

It’s not properly displaying the search results due to the fact that (I think) they both use that same template.

I have read that the search results page uses the same template as the woocommerce shop.

So two questions:

  1. I think that I need to change the php for the search so that it searches everything and not just the products.

  2. Is there a way to redirect/change where the search results are displayed rather than just showing in the shop?

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