[Mediawiki-l] Search Function not working

[Poplar, James]

Hello All,

 

I am supporting a MediaWiki installation with the following stats:

 

MediaWiki (http://wikipedia.sf.net/): 1.4.12 

PHP (http://www.php.net/): 5.1.2 (apache2handler) 

MySQL (http://www.mysql.com/): 5.0.18 

 

Everything seems to be working except the search function.  No matter
what it returns 0 results, even when I search with terms found in the
wikidb/searchindex table.  I realize the first thing everyone would say
is "Upgrade that puppy", but upgrading isn't going to be feasible in the
near future.

 

The only errors I can see anywhere are in the apache log,:

 

PHP Notice:  Only variable references should be returned by reference in
/vol0/www/localhost/htdocs/mediawiki/includes/SkinTemplate.php

 

The error also comes up when searching.  I may be barking up the wrong
tree here in thinking this is a symptom of the issue.

 

I've repaired the searchindex table just in case, and still can't
search.  I apologize if this is a commonly known issue, but I can't find
anything in google to help me troubleshoot it.  Search is a rather
important feature of our wiki.

 

What do you think could be the problem?