See maybe:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki/11329/focus=11341
Fran?ois
Mr Scsi wrote:
Hello,
We have an installation of Wikimedia with a mysql backend for a proof of
concept.
Currently, everyone thinks very highly of it with one problem. The
search
function doesn't seem to be searching the
wikitext field of any
articles.
It returns catagory names and page names if they
match exactly, but
nothing
from the body of the article.
I'm sure this is just a configureation issue, that needs to be set.
Could
someone tell me what we are missing?
Heres all the version info:
wrong link, sorry:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki/11505/focus=11505
Fran?ois
Thanks for the response, but that wasn't my problem.
I dug and dug through the dump files and logs to finally come to the
conclusion that mysql is pre configured to limit full text search to minimum
of 4 characters.
I made the change:
[mysqld]
ft_min_word_len=3
in my /etc/my.cnf. Ran the maintenance script to reindex and bingo.