Hi,
I've recently installed this and it seems generally to work fine, but I get some annoying results sometimes when searching. I've created one page called "Bird on the Wire" and another called "Leonard Cohen". When I search for "Leonard Cohen" or "leonard cohen" it goes straight to the article, likewise when I type "Bird on the Wire" that also goes direct to that page. But when I type "bird on the wire", or anything not in *exactly* the same case as the actual article name e.g. "Bird on the wire", "bird on The Wire" etc, the results say 'There is no page titled ":bird on The wire". You can create this page.' (Note the colon before the search term - this always comes up when the search term can't be found.) The article title matches below this message do list the existing "Bird on the Wire" article so at least that's working, but obviously I don't want users to be able to create a duplicate article.
I guess maybe this is a bug in this older version of MediaWiki but I have to use this version because my web hosts have PHP4.4.3 installed and I understand later versions need PHP5.
Thanks, Richard
But when I type [...] anything not in *exactly* the same case as the actual article name [...] the results say 'There is no page
Are you clicking on the "Go" button or the "Search" button? As I understand it, 'Go' tries to jump to a page exactly as you typed it, whereas 'Search' does a proper search on the string you entered.
(Note the colon before the search term - this always comes up when the search term can't be found.)
The colon means the page is in the main namespace (e.g. MediaWiki:Sidebar is in the MediaWiki namespace, but :Sidebar is a different page in the main namespace.)
I guess maybe this is a bug in this older version of MediaWiki but I have to use this version because my web hosts have PHP4.4.3 installed and I understand later versions need PHP5.
That seems correct - this issue isn't present in v1.8.2 which is what I'm running. I guess you either have the choice of living with the problem, trying to backport it yourself or upgrading PHP...
Cheers, Adam.
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