[Mediawiki-l] Problems with search
Herta Van den Eynde
herta.vandeneynde at gmail.com
Mon Jan 28 08:49:35 UTC 2008
On 28/01/2008, Günter Gratzer <Guenter.Gratzer at abf.co.at> wrote:
> hello,
> if I use search function in our mediawiki I often didn't get a result.
> e.g. if I search for "vpn" I don't get a result. If I enter "vpn-verbindung" the page is found. If I enter "verbindung" the page will be found as well.
>
> Anyone can explain me why it doesn't work?
>
> We use
>
> * MediaWiki <http://www.mediawiki.org/> : 1.11.0
> * PHP <http://www.php.net/> : 5.2.1
> * MySQL <http://www.mysql.com/> : 5.0.37
>
> thanks!
>
> Günter
MySQL only indexes words > 3 characters. You can change it, but you
may want to think it through before deciding whether you really want
it. More details on
Cf. http://eventum.mysql.org/wiki/index.php/Fulltext_Search
Kind regards,
Herta
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