Words exist, but returns "Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms."

[postcd]

Hello,

i search "vnc" without quotes on my forum and it returned "Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms."

but my forum contains topics with these words.

i have enabled minimum 3 characters search in Message searching options

and i did "Rebuild Search Index" from AdminCP, but still returns above error

[ozzy47]

MySQL Fulltext also has its own minimum word length that must be changed at the server level.

[Lynne]

This is covered in the manual. http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/options_search_minchars?manualversion=40202500

[postcd]

Thanks Lynne, so this must be changed in mysql config file ie: /etc/my.cnf , and dedi or vps server is needed, on shared hosting i cant do this?

[ozzy47]

Then you would need to contact your host and see if they can do it for you.