cannot confirm issue, archived Article is shown, no 404, tested on Joomla 3.6.5.

Look at http://starzach.de
enter in search box 'christkindlesexpress'
One result ist shown 'Eyachtäler Christkindlesexpress ' (http://starzach.de/aktuell/archiv/2016/12)
Clicking on result link shows 404 error

Go to Aktuell->Archiv
Filter with date Dezember 2016
Article is shown
Link is working (http://starzach.de/aktuell/aktuell/638-eyachtaeler-christkindlesexpress)

I confirm the issue.
There's the issue only if you create a menu item type Articles » Archived Articles
In my case I don't see a 404 error page, but another article when I click on the link on the results page

I can confirm this issue.
Go to http://bibliothek.hammelburg.de/archiv
Set filter to Nov 2016
You will see a article "Alle meine Schätze: Hannes sammelt Traktoren " and the link on the title is working.
Now when you search for "traktoren" in the site search you got a link to this article but when you click you get a 404
http://bibliothek.hammelburg.de/component/search/?searchword=Traktoren&searchphrase=all&Itemid=149

Same issue to my website. Is there a fix?

set Status "Needs Review" on Issue Tracker.

I confirm the issue (Joomla 3.6.5) and I found another router problem (bug or wrong design).

I had a category menu item showing articles in MYCAT category, urls were like:

/news/33-my-first-news
/news/38-another-news

I archived all articles in MYCAT category, created archived articles menu item, now urls are:

/news/12-MYCAT/33-my-first-news
/news/12-MYCAT/38-another-news

This leads to duplicate content problem since article can be accessed by both urls.

I upgraded to Joomla 3.7 and the issue is still open, but the symptoms have changed.

In 3.6.5. the link to an archived article in the search result list led to an 404 error or (as some reported) to the incorrect article.

In 3.7. the link to an archived article in the search result list opens the archive filtered by the month of the found article. And it's really just the month!

So take the example I gave in the third post in this thread: the search shows the archived article, but clicking the link opens up the archive filtered by December of all years (2016, 2015, 2014,...)!

I would expect the link in the search result list will take me directly to the archived article and not open up the archive view.

Hi wezetel,
have you tried in a fresh install of Joomla 3.7?
I tested, but can't reproduce the issue, now for me it's working correctly

Hi stellainformatica,
no, I didn't try on a fresh install (btw.: this is not an option for my production site). When I find some time I will clean up a test site and try a virgin joomla install.
Not sure, if you have had a look at the example I mentioned. You can also check the example @Hardyst mentioned on the 3rd of March. Same behaviour as on my site.

@csthomas You are very knowledgeable with router. Would you look into this? Thank you!

• Install Test English (GB) Sample Data.
• In the front end, search for What's New in 1.5?.
• Click on the link. See the URL http://localhost/joomla-cms-staging/index.php/archived-articles/2011?view=archive&month=1
• View page source. Find <base href="http://localhost/joomla-cms-staging/index.php/archived-articles/2011" />. This link cannot be found. 2011 should not be in the URL.

Reported before: #7084 (comment)

If the URL is changed to: localhost/joomla-cms-staging/index.php/archived-articles/2011/01?view=archive

Warning: array_diff(): Argument #1 is not an array in C:\xampp\htdocs\joomla-cms-staging\components\com_content\models\archive.php on line 87

Warning: array_values() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in C:\xampp\htdocs\joomla-cms-staging\components\com_content\models\archive.php on line 87

I see two issues:

1. I do not understand the behaviour of the search plugin. When the plugin found a published article then generates a link to the article but when the article is archived then generates link to list of archived articles based on year and month.
   This is very old commit, which changed that.
   e92eaa53ce 2010-12-14 # [#23764] Search Results have issues with SEF (Error: 500)
   
   I can fix it by changing link to the article, I mean revert the above. But it may break somehow B/C.
   When I leave Itemid of archive view then the article may have two different (duplicated) URLs:
   as published /category-alias/id-article-alias
   and as archived archived-articles/category-alias/id-article-alias
   
   The second one for me is wrong.

2. Parse and building of URL routing for the archived view are inconsistent.

If the URL in the search results,

http://localhost/joomla-cms-staging/index.php/archived-articles/2011?view=archive&month=1

can be changed so that the year is in the query

http://localhost/joomla-cms-staging/index.php/archived-articles/?view=archive&month=1&year=2011

then it will omit/fix the year in the URL:

<base href="http://localhost/joomla-cms-staging/index.php/archived-articles/2011" />

The duplicate URLs is mentioned here 4 postings up.

Set to "closed" on behalf of @Quy by The JTracker Application at issues.joomla.org/joomla-cms/13757

See #19397

The pull request 19397 doesn't fix the original problem, but at least the omitted year in the search result is solved.
But I would expect to have a direct link in the search result, even if the found article is in the archive.
At the current point in time the (archived) article is shown in the search result, but links to the archive and there you need to manually search for the article (could be annoying, if you have big archives). So no real search function.
I have to admitt: so the user should be aware that the found article is in the archive.

I can confirm wezetel's last comment even with Joomla 3.9.4 it's still the same issue:

• why in the search result list the links to archived articles only leads to the archive month (where can be dozens of articles then) -> instead it should link directly to the archived article like it is the way with all other search results too ....

this is extremely annoying.

beside of that: the mentioned pull request 19397 addresses a completely different problem,
and even this problem is still there in 3.9.4 when you looking on the search result list:
the links to the archive month are still built without the "year" as the correct parameter -> so the archive month of all existing years opens ...
this last issue with the missing year occurs only when you have SEO turned ON