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Search Not working

Post by FirstGen »

Just installed serendipity and setting it up... the search function used to work but now it does not... Please help :)

Website:
http://www.firstgencelica.com/serendipity/

I have the following plugins installed.

Quicksearch
Search for an entry
version: 1.0

Calendar
QuickJump Calendar
version: 1.0

Recent Entries
Shows the titles and dates of the most recent entries
version: 1.3

Link List
Links manager - Shows your favorite links in the sidebar.
version: 1.6

Events
Shows your personal calendar with X upcoming scheduled events
version: 0.4

Archives
Browse archives by month
version: 1.0

Syndicate This Blog
Shows RSS syndication links
version: 1.0

Top Referrers
Shows top sites that linked to your blogs
version: 1.0

Blog Administration
Provides a link in the sidebar to your blog administration
version: 1.0


Event Plugins
Click here to install a new event plugin
Title Permissions
Markup: Serendipity
Apply basic serendipity markup to entry text
version: 1.1

Markup: NL2BR
Convert newlines to BR tags
version: 1.2

Browser Compatibility
Uses different (CSS) methods to enforce maximum browser compatibility
version: 1.0

Spam Protector
A variety of methods to prevent comment spam
version: 1.26

Spartacus
[S]erendipity [P]lugin [A]ccess [R]epository [T]ool [A]nd [C]ustomization/nification [S]ystem - Allows you to download plugins from our online repository
version: 2.4

Static Pages
Shows static pages inside your blog with your blogs design and all formattings. Adds a new menu item to the admin interface.
version: 3.15

Link List
Links manager - Shows your favorite links in the sidebar.
version: 1.4

User Profiles
Shows simple user profiles and allows to embed author pictures.
version: 0.11

Google Sitemap Generator
Creates a sitemap.gz, which can be used by the the Googlebot.
version: 0.10

My Calendar
Maintains a personal calendar
version: 0.6

Show entries via JavaScript
Provides javascript output of recent entries for inclusion on other, extern websites. (see the README in the plugins directory!)
version: 0.1
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Re: Search Not working

Post by garvinhicking »

Hm, it does work for me -- when Isearch for "event" I get the entry containing that word?!

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Post by FirstGen »

Try searching for the word "celica" and tell me if you get any results. It is strange that I get the same results as you do when using "event" but I do not get anything when seaching for "celica" when it should come up for every page.
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Post by garvinhicking »

The MySQL fulltext search strips word that are present in every entry! The MySQL fulltext search has a few "gotchas" that are described in their docs about how their indexing works and how certain matches are excluded

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Post by FirstGen »

In the future, are you going to replace the current search with somthing that works better? Or, is there another search mod that I can use that works better?
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Post by garvinhicking »

Actually the MySQL fulltext search works pretty well. You don't want to see all entries in real life, do you? So we have no plans to create a different search, instead we prefer to use the quite well performing database internal functions...

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