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href="/mailinglist" class="wikilink1" title="mailinglist" data-wiki-id="mailinglist">Development mailinglist</a></div> </li> </ul> <hr /> <p> Follow us on <a href="https://phpc.social/@dokuwiki" class="urlextern" title="https://phpc.social/@dokuwiki">Mastodon</a> and other <a href="/social" class="wikilink1" title="social" data-wiki-id="social">social networks</a>. </p> <p> <a href="/privacy" class="wikilink1" title="privacy" data-wiki-id="privacy">Our Privacy Policy</a> </p> </div></div> </div></nav>  <main id="dokuwiki__content"><div class="pad group"> <div class="pageId"><span>search</span></div> <div class="page group">   <div id="dw__toc" class="dw__toc"> <h3 class="toggle">Table of Contents</h3> <div> <ul class="toc"> <li class="level1"><div class="li"><a href="#search">Search</a></div> <ul class="toc"> <li class="level2"><div class="li"><a href="#syntax">Syntax</a></div> <ul class="toc"> <li class="level3"><div class="li"><a href="#terms_you_want_to_exclude">Terms you want to exclude (-)</a></div></li> <li class="level3"><div class="li"><a href="#partial_matching">Partial matching (*)</a></div></li> <li class="level3"><div class="li"><a href="#phrase_search">Phrase search ("")</a></div></li> <li class="level3"><div class="li"><a href="#search_within_a_namespace">Search within a namespace (@)</a></div></li> <li class="level3"><div class="li"><a href="#the_or_operator">The OR operator (|)</a></div></li> <li class="level3"><div class="li"><a href="#grouping_search">Grouping search</a></div></li> </ul> </li> <li class="level2"><div class="li"><a href="#quicksearch">Quicksearch</a></div></li> <li class="level2"><div class="li"><a href="#opensearch">OpenSearch</a></div></li> <li class="level2"><div class="li"><a href="#some_background_on_the_searchindex">Some Background on the Searchindex</a></div></li> <li class="level2"><div class="li"><a href="#see_also">See also</a></div></li> </ul></li> </ul> </div> </div>  <h1 class="sectionedit1" id="search">Search</h1> <div class="level1"> <p> Search is done through the Search box in top row (when using the default <a href="/template" class="wikilink1" title="template" data-wiki-id="template">template</a>). </p> </div> <div class="secedit editbutton_section editbutton_1"><form class="button btn_secedit" method="post" action="/search"><div class="no"><input type="hidden" name="do" value="edit" /><input type="hidden" name="rev" value="1701231821" /><input type="hidden" name="summary" value="[Search] " /><input type="hidden" name="target" value="section" /><input type="hidden" name="hid" value="search" /><input type="hidden" name="codeblockOffset" value="0" /><input type="hidden" name="range" value="1-111" /><button type="submit" title="Search">Edit</button></div></form></div> <h2 class="sectionedit2" id="syntax">Syntax</h2> <div class="level2"> <p> Basically DokuWiki performs logical AND search. That means all the words you put in the query will be used. Search is always case insensitive. </p> <p> DokuWiki's advanced search query syntaxes are described below. All of the syntaxes can be combined together. In this section, we'll use square brackets <code>[ … ]</code> to represent characters entered in the query. </p> </div> <div class="secedit editbutton_section editbutton_2"><form class="button btn_secedit" method="post" action="/search"><div class="no"><input type="hidden" name="do" value="edit" /><input type="hidden" name="rev" value="1701231821" /><input type="hidden" name="summary" value="[Syntax] " /><input type="hidden" name="target" value="section" /><input type="hidden" name="hid" value="syntax" /><input type="hidden" name="codeblockOffset" value="0" /><input type="hidden" name="range" value="112-486" /><button type="submit" title="Syntax">Edit</button></div></form></div> <h3 class="sectionedit3" id="terms_you_want_to_exclude">Terms you want to exclude (-)</h3> <div class="level3"> <p> You can attach a minus sign <code>-</code> immediately before a keyword to exclude pages that contain this keyword from your search results. For example, the query <code>[ dokuwiki -plugin ]</code> will find pages which contain “DokuWiki” but do not contain “plugin”. </p> <p> You can use this syntax <code>-</code> not just for a keyword, but also for a partial matching, a phrase search, a namespace search and a grouping search described below. For example, you can use the query <code>[ -"phrase you want to exclude" ]</code> to exclude exact phrase. </p> </div> <div class="secedit editbutton_section editbutton_3"><form class="button btn_secedit" method="post" action="/search"><div class="no"><input type="hidden" name="do" value="edit" /><input type="hidden" name="rev" value="1701231821" /><input type="hidden" name="summary" value="[Terms you want to exclude (-)] " /><input type="hidden" name="target" value="section" /><input type="hidden" name="hid" value="terms_you_want_to_exclude" /><input type="hidden" name="codeblockOffset" value="0" /><input type="hidden" name="range" value="487-1044" /><button type="submit" title="Terms you want to exclude (-)">Edit</button></div></form></div> <h3 class="sectionedit4" id="partial_matching">Partial matching (*)</h3> <div class="level3"> <p> You can perform a partial matching by prefixing and/or suffixing an asterisk <code>*</code> to a keyword. For example, searching for <code>[ wiki ]</code> will only find “wiki”, but searching for <code>[ *wiki ]</code> will also find “DokuWiki” (suffix matching). You can also perform <code>[ doku* ]</code> (prefix matching) and <code>[ *okuwik* ]</code> (partial matching). </p> <p> Note that <code>*</code> is not a “wildcard”. You can't use it within a keyword, i.e. searching <code>[ doku*iki ]</code> will not find anything for you. </p> </div> <div class="secedit editbutton_section editbutton_4"><form class="button btn_secedit" method="post" action="/search"><div class="no"><input type="hidden" name="do" value="edit" /><input type="hidden" name="rev" value="1701231821" /><input type="hidden" name="summary" value="[Partial matching (*)] " /><input type="hidden" name="target" value="section" /><input type="hidden" name="hid" value="partial_matching" /><input type="hidden" name="codeblockOffset" value="0" /><input type="hidden" name="range" value="1045-1547" /><button type="submit" title="Partial matching (*)">Edit</button></div></form></div> <h3 class="sectionedit5" id="phrase_search">Phrase search ("")</h3> <div class="level3"> <p> You can search for exact phrases by putting double quotes around a set of words, e.g. <code>[ "installing dokuwiki" ]</code>. </p> </div> <div class="secedit editbutton_section editbutton_5"><form class="button btn_secedit" method="post" action="/search"><div class="no"><input type="hidden" name="do" value="edit" /><input type="hidden" name="rev" value="1701231821" /><input type="hidden" name="summary" value="[Phrase search ("")] " /><input type="hidden" name="target" value="section" /><input type="hidden" name="hid" value="phrase_search" /><input type="hidden" name="codeblockOffset" value="0" /><input type="hidden" name="range" value="1548-1699" /><button type="submit" title="Phrase search ("")">Edit</button></div></form></div> <h3 class="sectionedit6" id="search_within_a_namespace">Search within a namespace (@)</h3> <div class="level3"> <p> You can restrict the search to namespaces. To search pages within a namespace, prefix <code>@</code> or <code>ns:</code> to the namespace. To not search pages within a namespace, prefix <code>^</code> or <code>-ns:</code> to the namespace. </p> <p> For example, the query <code>[ dokuwiki @wiki ^wiki:docs ]</code> will find pages which contain a word “dokuwiki” and are within “wiki” namespace but not within “wiki:docs” namespace. The query <code>[ dokuwiki ns:wiki -ns:wiki:docs ]</code> will do the same thing. </p> </div> <div class="secedit editbutton_section editbutton_6"><form class="button btn_secedit" method="post" action="/search"><div class="no"><input type="hidden" name="do" value="edit" /><input type="hidden" name="rev" value="1701231821" /><input type="hidden" name="summary" value="[Search within a namespace (@)] " /><input type="hidden" name="target" value="section" /><input type="hidden" name="hid" value="search_within_a_namespace" /><input type="hidden" name="codeblockOffset" value="0" /><input type="hidden" name="range" value="1700-2194" /><button type="submit" title="Search within a namespace (@)">Edit</button></div></form></div> <h3 class="sectionedit7" id="the_or_operator">The OR operator (|)</h3> <div class="level3"> <p> By default DokuWiki performs a logical AND search, but you can also use a logical OR search by using <code>|</code> or <code>or</code> as a separator of your search terms. For example, the query <code>[ plugin | template ]</code> will find pages which contain either “plugin” or “template” or both. The query <code>[ plugin or template ]</code> will do the same thing. You may use OR as a simple alternative to <a href="#partial_matching" title="search ↵" class="wikilink1">Partial matching (*)</a>, e.g. in finding pages about people with spelling variations as <code>[ Frank | Fränk ]</code>. </p> <p> The OR operator has a lower precedence than the default AND operator. That is, the query <code>[ dokuwiki plugin | template ]</code> can be represented as <code>[ (dokuwiki plugin) | template ]</code>, not as <code>[ dokuwiki (plugin | template) ]</code>. Instead, use a grouping syntax as described below. </p> <p> If you want to <a href="#search_within_a_namespace" title="search ↵" class="wikilink1">restrict your search on a namespace</a>, you <strong>have</strong> to group your search with “()”, otherwise a search <code>[ plugin | template @plugin]</code> will behave as <code>[ (plugin) | (template @plugin)]</code>, i.e. searching for “plugin” OR “template @plugin” over <em>all</em> namespaces, but not as you may intend searching “plugin” OR “template” over the <em>plugin</em> namespace, the latter being correctly expressed as <code>[ (plugin | template) @plugin]</code>. </p> </div> <div class="secedit editbutton_section editbutton_7"><form class="button btn_secedit" method="post" action="/search"><div class="no"><input type="hidden" name="do" value="edit" /><input type="hidden" name="rev" value="1701231821" /><input type="hidden" name="summary" value="[The OR operator (|)] " /><input type="hidden" name="target" value="section" /><input type="hidden" name="hid" value="the_or_operator" /><input type="hidden" name="codeblockOffset" value="0" /><input type="hidden" name="range" value="2195-3475" /><button type="submit" title="The OR operator (|)">Edit</button></div></form></div> <h3 class="sectionedit8" id="grouping_search">Grouping search</h3> <div class="level3"> <p> You can group search terms by enclosing terms with parentheses <code>( … )</code>. Having the highest precedence, parentheses may be used to force precedence. </p> <p> For example, the query <code>[ dokuwiki -(plugin | @plugin) ]</code> will find pages which contain a word “DokuWiki” but not contain a word “plugin” and also are not within a namespace “plugin”. </p> </div> <div class="secedit editbutton_section editbutton_8"><form class="button btn_secedit" method="post" action="/search"><div class="no"><input type="hidden" name="do" value="edit" /><input type="hidden" name="rev" value="1701231821" /><input type="hidden" name="summary" value="[Grouping search] " /><input type="hidden" name="target" value="section" /><input type="hidden" name="hid" value="grouping_search" /><input type="hidden" name="codeblockOffset" value="0" /><input type="hidden" name="range" value="3476-3842" /><button type="submit" title="Grouping search">Edit</button></div></form></div> <h2 class="sectionedit9" id="quicksearch">Quicksearch</h2> <div class="level2"> <p> You can enter the beginning of a <a href="/pagename" class="wikilink1" title="pagename" data-wiki-id="pagename">pagename</a> into the search box and wait half a second. In most modern browsers you will automatically get a popup with matching pagenames. </p> </div> <div class="secedit editbutton_section editbutton_9"><form class="button btn_secedit" method="post" action="/search"><div class="no"><input type="hidden" name="do" value="edit" /><input type="hidden" name="rev" value="1701231821" /><input type="hidden" name="summary" value="[Quicksearch] " /><input type="hidden" name="target" value="section" /><input type="hidden" name="hid" value="quicksearch" /><input type="hidden" name="codeblockOffset" value="0" /><input type="hidden" name="range" value="3843-4042" /><button type="submit" title="Quicksearch">Edit</button></div></form></div> <h2 class="sectionedit10" id="opensearch">OpenSearch</h2> <div class="level2"> <p> <a href="/_detail/opensearch2.png?id=search" class="media" title="opensearch2.png"><img src="/_media/opensearch2.png" class="mediaright" loading="lazy" title="OpenSearch in Firefox" alt="OpenSearch in Firefox" /></a> </p> <p> <a href="http://www.opensearch.org/" class="urlextern" title="http://www.opensearch.org/">OpenSearch</a> is a standard to make it easy to integrate a website's search into your browser. It is supported by all modern browsers. DokuWiki is OpenSearch enabled. </p> <p> Here is how to add your wiki's search to Firefox (other browsers probably handle it in a similar way): </p> <ol> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> open your wiki in the browser</div> </li> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> click the magnifying glass on the left of your browser's search field</div> </li> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> choose “Add <your wiki's title>”, e.g. “Add DokuWiki”</div> </li> </ol> </div> <div class="secedit editbutton_section editbutton_10"><form class="button btn_secedit" method="post" action="/search"><div class="no"><input type="hidden" name="do" value="edit" /><input type="hidden" name="rev" value="1701231821" /><input type="hidden" name="summary" value="[OpenSearch] " /><input type="hidden" name="target" value="section" /><input type="hidden" name="hid" value="opensearch" /><input type="hidden" name="codeblockOffset" value="0" /><input type="hidden" name="range" value="4043-4578" /><button type="submit" title="OpenSearch">Edit</button></div></form></div> <h2 class="sectionedit11" id="some_background_on_the_searchindex">Some Background on the Searchindex</h2> <div class="level2"> <p> DokuWiki now uses an index to search even big wikis very fast, to be able to find anything the index needs to be filled with current data. Information about a page's content is added and updated when a page is viewed by a user. Each page includes an invisible image (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/webbug" class="interwiki iw_wp" title="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/webbug">webbug</a>) which calls the index update process if needed.<sup><a href="#fn__1" id="fnt__1" class="fn_top">1)</a></sup> (That is, if the timestamp of the page is newer than the timestamp of the index file.) </p> <p> The index consists of files called <code>page.idx</code>, <code>w<em>[n]</em>.idx</code> and <code>i<em>[n]</em>.idx</code> located in the index directory. <code>w<em>[n]</em>.idx</code> contains a list of all words (except stopwords) with a length of <em>n</em> that appear on the wiki pages. For every line in <code>w<em>[n]</em>.idx</code> there is a line in the corresponding <code>i<em>[n]</em>.idx</code> file that contains page references in the form of <code>pn*freq</code>. <code>pn</code> is a line offset for <code>page.idx</code>, <code>freq</code> denotes how often the word appears on the page. Multiple page references are separated with a colon. </p> <p> The <a href="/taskrunner" class="wikilink1" title="taskrunner" data-wiki-id="taskrunner">indexer</a> uses a language specific stopword file which contains a list of very common words which will never be indexed (e.g. the word <code>the</code> in English). Searching for such a word will not return any hits. This stopword file is located in language folder of the DokuWiki installation, that is <code><dokuwiki>/inc/lang/<language>/stopwords.txt</code> so you can edit the file in proper folder for adding or removing words not indexed for that language (Unfortunately, these edits are not kept on upgrades of DokuWiki). </p> <p> If you upgraded your wiki from an older version without an index, your search won't return anything until the index is built. You can either wait until this happens by browsing your wiki or install the <a href="/plugin:searchindex" class="wikilink1" title="plugin:searchindex" data-wiki-id="plugin:searchindex">searchindex</a> plugin. You can also use the provided <a href="/cli" class="wikilink1" title="cli" data-wiki-id="cli">commandline script</a> for updating the index. </p> </div> <div class="secedit editbutton_section editbutton_11"><form class="button btn_secedit" method="post" action="/search"><div class="no"><input type="hidden" name="do" value="edit" /><input type="hidden" name="rev" value="1701231821" /><input type="hidden" name="summary" value="[Some Background on the Searchindex] " /><input type="hidden" name="target" value="section" /><input type="hidden" name="hid" value="some_background_on_the_searchindex" /><input type="hidden" name="codeblockOffset" value="0" /><input type="hidden" name="range" value="4579-6528" /><button type="submit" title="Some Background on the Searchindex">Edit</button></div></form></div> <h2 class="sectionedit12" id="see_also">See also</h2> <div class="level2"> <ul> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> <a href="/faq:searchindex" class="wikilink1" title="faq:searchindex" data-wiki-id="faq:searchindex">Search Index Issues</a></div> </li> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> <a href="/config:search_fragment" class="wikilink1" title="config:search_fragment" data-wiki-id="config:search_fragment">Configuration Setting: search_fragment</a></div> </li> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> <a href="/config:search_nslimit" class="wikilink1" title="config:search_nslimit" data-wiki-id="config:search_nslimit">Configuration Setting: search_nslimit</a></div> </li> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> <a href="/config:readdircache" class="wikilink1" title="config:readdircache" data-wiki-id="config:readdircache">Configuration Setting: readdircache</a></div> </li> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> <a href="http://www.dokuwiki.org/plugins?plugintag=search" class="interwiki iw_plugintag" title="http://www.dokuwiki.org/plugins?plugintag=search">Plugins tagged with "search"</a></div> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="secedit editbutton_section editbutton_12"><form class="button btn_secedit" method="post" action="/search"><div class="no"><input type="hidden" name="do" value="edit" /><input type="hidden" name="rev" value="1701231821" /><input type="hidden" name="summary" value="[See also] " /><input type="hidden" name="target" value="section" /><input type="hidden" name="hid" value="see_also" /><input type="hidden" name="codeblockOffset" value="0" /><input type="hidden" name="range" value="6529-" /><button type="submit" title="See also">Edit</button></div></form></div><div class="footnotes"> <div class="fn"><sup><a href="#fnt__1" id="fn__1" class="fn_bot">1)</a></sup> <div class="content">Note that the webbug is used for other tasks, too. 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