I've been *trying* for *a very long time now* to implement Lucene-search functionality on my MediaWiki site -- I've spent Hours+Days+*Weeks*+*Months*troubleshooting this *very issue* - I'm giving this one last effort, I am hoping *SOMEONE* will be able to *help me*, otherwise I am thinking of moving away from MediaWiki entirely (which would make me a very sad panda), and will painstakingly import my MediaWiki into Drupal - then try out their neat sounding-module called Drupal::Search_Attachments module<http://drupal.org/project/search_attachments>ts>. I have put in over 1 year's worth of work into my MediaWiki-based wiki. I truly *need* the solution that Extension:Lucene-search<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Lucene-s… +Extension:MWSearch <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MWSearch>offers, but it has been next to impossible for me to implement on my Slackware server. Who knows, my trouble could very well be something I am doing wrong! I'm human enough to admit that if it turns out to be the case... This is why I come for assistance, I am thinking of posting to the MediaWiki forums too, and linking here (hope that's OK), as I really, *really* want to get Extension:Lucene-search<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Lucene-s… +Extension:MWSearch <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MWSearch>working for me! I have been trying to get Extension:Lucene-search<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Lucene-s… +Extension:MWSearch <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MWSearch>working for over 6months now, and posted alot of my previous issues *HERE<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:Lucene-search#MediaWiki.2BLucene-Search.2BMWSearch_.3D_ZERO_search_results_.3F.3F.21.40.23.3F.21> * at the MediaWiki Lucene-Search Talk page<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:Lucene-search#MediaWik…21>, but was unable to find any solutions to my problem. I even tried the newer+more-up-to-date Extension:Lucene-search<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Lucene-s… +Extension:MWSearch <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MWSearch> setup *to no avail*. I am BACK, now with a *brand new computer* (well, it's actually older-hardware, but newly formatted hard-drive), a freshly installed OS<http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=A_freshly_installed_OS&…;redlink=1>, *a very basic website* with some basic data input to test search functionality This is my current overall system setup; - Slackware 12.1 <http://www.slackware.com/>, on i686 Pentium III (Linux 2.6.24.5-smp = Slackware 12.1's generic-smp-2.6.24.5-smp<http://packages.slackware.it/package.php?q=12.1/kernel-generic-smp-2.6.24.5_smp-i686-2>kernel) - MediaWiki: 1.13alpha (SVN<http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/phase3>06-25-2008) - PHP: 5.2.6 (I used Slackware 12.1's PHP v5.2.6 update package<http://packages.slackware.it/package.php?q=12.1/php-5.2.6-i486-1_slack12.1> ) - MySQL: 5.0.51b - MediaWiki Extension(s): [Extension:lucene-search|MWSearch]] SVN 06-25-2008<http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/M…h/>, and Lucene-search2<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Lucene-search> SVN 06-25-2008<http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/lucene-searc…2/>, + I downloaded & installed mwdumper.jar<http://download.wikimedia.org/tools/mwdumper.jar>into the Lucene-search2 "lib" dir = /usr/local/search/ls2 - other tools: jre-6u6-i586-3<http://packages.slackware.it/package.php?q=12.1/jre-6u6-i586-3>, jdk-1_5_0_09-i586-1<http://packages.slackware.it/package.php?q=12.1/jdk-6u6-i586-3>, apache-ant-1.7.0-i486<http://slackbuilds.org/repository/12.1/development…t/>, rsync-3.0.2-i486-1<http://packages.slackware.it/package.php?q=12.1/rsync-3.0.2-i486-1> I've gone over and over and *OVER* the directions per Extension:Lucene-search<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Lucene-s… Extension:MWSearch <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MWSearch> pages, I just cannot get this working properly on my box, now that I tried on a new install with new everything, I am convinced this is not a problem on my end, but I could be wrong --- I have documented EVERYTHING I did from install, to now since I've been over this so many times, maybe by me posting my logs here and what I did from begining to end, someone might "see something" I'm missing?? Please HELP! =) If you might be able to assist, but need more information from me, I've got it for you = right HERE<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:MWSearch#MediaWiki_SVN… ! <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:MWSearch#MediaWiki_SVN.2BLucene-Search2_SVN.2BMWSearch_SVN_.3D_ZERO_search_results> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:MWSearch#MediaWiki_SVN.2BLucen… I am posting the link to where all my configs and logs are so that I don't take up a ton of space on this message, hopefully someone can help me! Thanks!! agentdcooper(a)gmail.com