Hey,
When I search on my site for CVN-500 or CVN500 or cvn500 …… on my site I get no results. I’ve tried every option and it doesn’t help. I know that I have hundreds of posts with CVN-500 in them.
Can anything be done about this? Any back-end settings that can affect the way the search engine works?
Thanks,
Pierre
you said site, I assume you mean forum posts? our search only looks in forum posts…
not sure on that particular string, though I could guess… generally, anything I searched for on your site I found except for that string… obviously cvn500 wont match when there is a – in the actual string…
but your mysql set up, like most default to, is limited to 4 character minimum searches… anything less wont match… which means you cannot search for cvn or 500… only way to change that is for you or your host to change the mysql configuration file my.cnf on your your server – we cannot affect that…
why its not matching? I can only guess that the – (dash) in the word is throwing mysql off somehow… and the string on either side is only 3 characters and thus too short to search for… the dash might be a mysql match special character – will need to research that… if so, perhaps it can be escaped to be a real character…
Yes, sorry, that is what I meant. The forum on my site. LOL
The strange thing is that it came back with lot’s of results before, just not recently. I could actually get so many pages of results before that it wasn’t worth looking through them.
Thanks for your help.
well, when I search for most anything I know that is on your forum, I get lots of results… it seemed liked the – was the problem along with the 4 char limit on your server…
we have a ticket created already for some search improvements and I have added a note to check into the dash or other special chars…