How does it not work, specifically? I was able to search for "test" and get results.

wladston wrote:

demon,

http://wiki.s1mp3.org/Special:Search?search=test&go=Go returns no results, check it again....

it doesn't return anything for any string that you search.

dasch wrote:

I think I've a similar problem in my wiki (http://www.wecowi.de) it seams that searchterms with 3 and less chars give no results, all other work fine

and it seams that it has something todo with the mysql statement, because when using the statment given in http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Searchindex_table and querying directly to the database also retunrs no result

so maybe it's also a bug in MySQL, although wecowi is using "5.0.32-Debian_7etch6" and s1mp2.org "5.0.67-log"
on wikimedia with "4.0.40-wikimedia-log" it works correctly

wladston wrote:

"searchterms with 3 and less chars give no results," -- that's not a bug, according to then it's a "feature", check the documentation :)

with my with, though, it doesn't matter the length of the string, it doesn't return anything anyways :/

dasch wrote:

how ^demon said, when using "test" it returns a result!

how I said, the searching of short strings in wikipedia works (MySQL4) in wikis with MySQL5 it does not work

for the first there should be displayed a message when a to short string is search to not confuse the users

wladston wrote:

Ahn, I got it!

But, when you put test on the search box on the left "seach" window, it doesn't work.

it only works if you place the search terms directly on the search page, and not on the mini-search window.

DaSch, Demon, can you guys confirm that ?

Thanks!

dasch wrote:

still there in 1.13.3

There should be done something, maybe only a message that searching with less then 3 characters does not work

This looks like your URL rewriting rules are bad and are not passing on the query string. If doing this with Apache's mod_rewrite, you should add the [QSA] option to your rule definition.

(Note the totally unrelated 3-letter issue is dealt with in the upcoming 1.14 release -- bug 7726. You can of course fix your MySQL configuration manually and fix it for any version of MediaWiki.)

wladston wrote:

Brion,

The search page was passing the query string to index.php, and that was working, so I manually changed the search box to pass the query to index.php, and now that works ...

How would apache not be passing on the querystring ? Can you give me an example ?

Thanks a lot for the help.

dasch wrote:

isn't this fixed? works in my wiki

The 3-letter-word bug was resolved FIXED, as Brion mentioned above. The other issue is related to rewrite rules, which WORKSFORME.