Extension:MWSearch

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

Used by Wikimedia Foundation until 2014, but to be replaced by Extension:CirrusSearch.

Installation

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

To load-balance with from multiple servers:

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