Re: [Mediawiki-l] Problems with search

Thanks Herta for your tip!

I added ft_min_word_len=3 to my.ini and rebuild the FULLTEXT index of table searchindex as described in your link. Now it works!

Regards Günter

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] Im Auftrag von Herta Van den Eynde Gesendet: Montag, 28. Jänner 2008 09:50 An: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Betreff: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Problems with search

On 28/01/2008, Günter Gratzer Guenter.Gratzer@abf.co.at wrote:

hello, if I use search function in our mediawiki I often didn't get a result. e.g. if I search for "vpn" I don't get a result. If I enter "vpn-verbindung" the page is found. If I enter "verbindung" the page will be found as well.

Anyone can explain me why it doesn't work?

We use

•   MediaWiki <http://www.mediawiki.org/> : 1.11.0
  

•   PHP <http://www.php.net/> : 5.2.1
  

•   MySQL <http://www.mysql.com/> : 5.0.37
  
  

thanks!

Günter

MySQL only indexes words > 3 characters. You can change it, but you may want to think it through before deciding whether you really want it. More details on Cf. http://eventum.mysql.org/wiki/index.php/Fulltext_Search

Kind regards,

Herta