Yes, 3 characters is the minimum. Apparently that can be changed but it requires changing something about the database, so I didn't bother when I learned that.

On Oct 2, 2004, at 7:07 AM, Steffen Siebert wrote:

Hi,

I have pages which contains "Ant" and "CVS" in header and normal text. But if I search for "ant", "Ant", "ANT", "cvs" or "CVS" I get no matches.

I added "Ants" to the page text and a search for "ants" is successfull.

Is there a minimum length for search terms and if so why I don't get a message informing me about that fact?

A search for "cvs" in Wikipedia is successfull by the way...

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Change your 'my.cnf' file to contain at least the following:

[mysqld] ft_min_word_len=2

[myisamchk] ft_min_word_len=2

and then even 2-character wordss should be searchable. Once you change this parameter, you need to rebuild the text index by running maintenance/rebuildtextindex.php

cheers, -Nick

Steffen Siebert wrote:

Hi,

I have pages which contains "Ant" and "CVS" in header and normal text. But if I search for "ant", "Ant", "ANT", "cvs" or "CVS" I get no matches.

I added "Ants" to the page text and a search for "ants" is successfull.

Is there a minimum length for search terms and if so why I don't get a message informing me about that fact?

A search for "cvs" in Wikipedia is successfull by the way...

Ciao, Steffen _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l