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Asked: 2026-05-28T07:55:38+00:00

I’ve recently asked my server administrator, for my Windows dedicated server, to change the

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I’ve recently asked my server administrator, for my Windows dedicated server, to change the MySQL configuration file (my.cnf) to allow search words of 2 characters or more, from the default of 4.

They said the changed it, restarted MySQL and re-booted the server but I have seen no changes. I’ve rebuilt the indexes only on the tables that this particular script uses, using the REPAIR TABLE method but still doesn’t work as it should.

Do I have to rebuild all indexes, on all tables, even though they’re not being used for this full-text query?

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Is this right? After searching my server for my.ini files? 5.0 is my latest version.

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    Those changes should have been sufficient. You should verify by running this:

    show variables like 'ft_min_word_len';

    Typically if you are changing ft_min_word_len you also want to change ft_stopword_file since many short words are also stopwords. You can just set that variable to ” if you don’t want any stopwords. Otherwise specify a path to an alternate stopwords file. That could be your problem, depending on what you are searching for.

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