[Mediawiki-l] Full text search

[Nick Triantos]

You probably at least need to change the following parameters in my.cnf 
(MySQL only indexes words of length >= 4 by default:

[mysqld]
ft_min_word_len=3

[myisamchk]
ft_min_word_len=3

Stop and restart your mysql server, of course.

You'll also need to rebuild your search index, there's a script to do 
that in the maintenance area.

regards,
-Nick

Moritz Karbach wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'd like to have a full text search in my MediaWiki. I have got a page called 
>'Linux', containing several occurrances of the word 'tar'. But the search 
>function doesn't find anything!
>
>I have checked the FulltextStoplist.php file, but it doesn't contain the word 
>'tar'.
>
>If I do a manual search through the mysql tables 'cur' and 'searchindex' I 
>receive several hits...
>
>Can anyone help me?
>
>- Moritz
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