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 modulehttp://drupal.org/project/search_attachments. I have put in over 1 year's worth of work into my MediaWiki-based wiki. I truly *need* the solution that Extension:Lucene-searchhttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Lucene-search +Extension:MWSearch http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MWSearchoffers, 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-searchhttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Lucene-search +Extension:MWSearch http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MWSearchworking for me!

I have been trying to get Extension:Lucene-searchhttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Lucene-search +Extension:MWSearch http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MWSearchworking for over 6months now, and posted alot of my previous issues *HEREhttp://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 pagehttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:Lucene-search#MediaWiki.2BLucene-Search.2BMWSearch_.3D_ZERO_search_results_.3F.3F.21.40.23.3F.21, but was unable to find any solutions to my problem. I even tried the newer+more-up-to-date Extension:Lucene-searchhttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Lucene-search +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 OShttp://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=A_freshly_installed_OS&action=edit&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-smphttp://packages.slackware.it/package.php?q=12.1/kernel-generic-smp-2.6.24.5_smp-i686-2kernel) - MediaWiki: 1.13alpha (SVNhttp://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/phase306-25-2008) - PHP: 5.2.6 (I used Slackware 12.1's PHP v5.2.6 update packagehttp://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 06-25-2008http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/MWSearch/, and Lucene-search2http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Lucene-search SVN 06-25-2008http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/lucene-search-2/, + I downloaded & installed mwdumper.jarhttp://download.wikimedia.org/tools/mwdumper.jarinto the Lucene-search2 "lib" dir = /usr/local/search/ls2 - other tools: jre-6u6-i586-3http://packages.slackware.it/package.php?q=12.1/jre-6u6-i586-3, jdk-1_5_0_09-i586-1http://packages.slackware.it/package.php?q=12.1/jdk-6u6-i586-3, apache-ant-1.7.0-i486http://slackbuilds.org/repository/12.1/development/apache-ant/, rsync-3.0.2-i486-1http://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-searchhttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Lucene-searchand 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 HEREhttp://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.2BLucene-Search2_SVN.2BMWSearch_SVN_.3D_ZERO_search_results http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:MWSearch#MediaWiki_SVN.2BLucene...http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:MWSearch#MediaWiki_SVN.2BLucene-Search2_SVN.2BMWSearch_SVN_.3D_ZERO_search_results%22%5DHERE%5B/URL

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!!

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