Thread:Project:Support desk/API always returns empty result set

Hello,

my situation is the following:

I set up Mediawiki (Version 1.22.1) on my local desktop computer for testing purposes. This installation is running on a local Apache web server with PHP version 5.3.10 and MySQL version 5.5.35. Utilizing the mwdumper (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:MWDumper), I then imported a recent article dump of the German Wikpedia into my local installation, which after some tinkering around worked quit well.

What I am now trying to do is to send a search request to the wiki's API (e.g. api.php?action=query&format=xml&list=search&srsearch=Hello). Unfortunately, requests of this type always return an empty result set, no matter what.The response merely consists of:     Searching via the frontend search mask is working fine.

Is some explicit configuration necessary to make the API work?