Thread:Project:Support desk/How to recreate the search index

Hi All,

I have recently migrated the Mediawiki 1.12 to Mediawiki 1.25.1, Everything works good except few things. The 1st issue is that 3 characters or less keyword searching not gives result for existing data (old) but if I edit the page and try to put any new word and then it searches, so it means that I need to rebuild the existing search index. as per Mediawiki advice i.e. '''Searchindex may need to be repaired: In phpMyAdmin, enter "REPAIR TABLE wikidb.searchindex; " for rebuilding the search index. wikidb is your database's name''', I did same thing but still same issue. Do I need to run the rebuildtextindex.php also, if yes how I do as I don't know how to run the individual php page. 2. I also facing special character decoding issue on page title - If I see the existing page on production (mediawiki 1.12) it shows proper page title i.e. Arm®, but if I see that in DEV server (mediawiki 1.25), then I see ArmÂ®