XF 1.5 Search problem

[daniel-bios]

Hello

When i search for something
example hp 541 bios i find it

but when i search for hp 541 i dont find anything
and when search for 541
i dont find anything

How to solve this ?

 

[Fred.]

Not sure it that will help but did you try to rebuild the search index?

 

[daniel-bios]

yes i rebuilt it before and is the same result

 

[Fred.]

Do you have the minimum search length set differently in XenForo then in MySQL?

 

[daniel-bios]

minimum search length is 2

 

[Fred.]

minimum search length is 2


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Yes, But you also have to change that in MySQL because the default in MySQL is 4. Check your
/etc/my.cnf or /etc/mysql/my.cnf and check if you have this in there.
ft_min_word_len = 2

2 is not recommended b.t.w

 

[daniel-bios]

i had it before 4 and it was the same

 

[Mike]

Based on the results in the screenshot, the search is just returning results for "bios". It certainly looks like your MySQL server has its minimum word length set to 4. If you decrease the option within XF but don't change the MySQL setting, you will mostly just get words being silently ignored from your search. Out of the box (4 in XF settings and MySQL), there would be a message that indicates that "hp" and "541" were not included in your search.

 

[daniel-bios]

I change the
my.cnf to
ft_min_word_len = 3

and search minimum word length from 4 to 3

and again when search for hp 541
i dont find anything

is the same when search for mbx-149

 

[Paul B]

You need to rebuild the search index after changing the min word length.

 

[daniel-bios]

yes i rebuilt it before and is the same result

 

[Paul B]

I receive this message when searching for that string:

The search could not be completed because the search keywords were too short, too long, or too common.

So either the min word length is too long or the content isn't searchable for one of the other reasons listed.

 

[Fred.]

You also need to restart MySQL after you change something in my.cnf