Guild Wars Wiki:Requests for technical administration/MWSearch

Request for MWSearch

Homepage

http://mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MWSearch

http://mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Lucene-search

Type

Backend modifications & extension

Additional requirements

Java 6+ JDK, Apache Ant 1.6 to install the required lucene search engine as a daemon on the server

Installation notes

The installation is a bit complicated as the daemon needs to be set up first, before the actual extension can be installed.

• Make sure that $wgDBadminuser and $wgDBadminpassword are set correctly in either /AdminSettings.php or /LocalSettings.php (starting with MW 1.16, the former will no longer be shipped, and the configuration moves to /LocalSettings.php).
• Download the latest stable release of lucene search, and build the packet:

./configure /path/to/wiki/root
./build
./update

• Download the MWSearch extension, extract the content into /extensions/MWSearch/ and add the following lines to /LocalSettings.php:

$wgSearchType = 'LuceneSearch';
$wgLuceneHost = '127.0.0.1';
$wgLucenePort = 8123;

require_once( "$IP/extensions/MWSearch/MWSearch.php" );
$wgLuceneSearchVersion = 2.1;

• Start ./lsearchd as a background daemon.

Reason for the request

The lucene search engine greatly improves the performance and quality of search results.

What else uses it

It is used on the whole WikiMedia farm.