Extension:MWSearch

MWSearch extension is a MediaWiki backend to fetch search results from MediaWiki Lucene-based search engine.

Installation

 * If you haven't already, install Extension:Lucene-search first. That is the search backend that this extension uses, it is required.

1. Download snapshot that matches your MediaWiki version 2. Add the following to your LocalSettings.php:

To load-balance with from multiple servers: 3. Installation can now be verified through Special:Version of your wiki

If used on a gentoo based Server make sure dev-lang/php was emerged with the curl USE flag set, otherwise search attempts will fail because nothing will be sent to the lsearchd.

Installing the search engine
Lucene-search daemon needs to be running on the specified host(s). For instructions see Extension:lucene-search.