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Extension:CirrusSearch - MediaWiki

The CirrusSearch extension implements searching for MediaWiki using Elasticsearch.

Elasticsearch is a standalone third-party software you must install as a requirement for this extension. It is a database system that provides search and indexing functionality, where the current text of your wiki pages gets indexed for faster and improved search results. The communication between MediaWiki and Elasticsearch is done through web services.

See also the help page on using this extension.

Goals

Dependencies

PHP and cURL

In addition to the standard MediaWiki requirements for PHP, CirrusSearch requires PHP to be compiled with cURL support.

Elasticsearch or Opensearch

You must install Elasticsearch or Opensearch.

Every version of Elasticsearch changes how web services work and causes compatibility problems. You must install the version of Elasticsearch compatible with the version of MediaWiki you are currently using:

MediaWiki 1.39+ require Elasticsearch 7.10.2 (6.8.23+ is possible using a compatibility layer ). See this revision for compatibility information with earlier versions of MediaWiki.

MediaWiki 1.44+ is compatible with Opensearch 1.3.

Elasticsearch versions before 6.8 are incompatible with PHP 8+.

Take note that a Java installation like OpenJDK is needed in addition. It's best to use the official Elasticsearch Docker image or a self-hosted version. A managed product like Amazon OpenSearch (formerly Amazon Elasticsearch) can work but may require additional configuration depending on its specifics. For example, Amazon OpenSearch only listens for Elasticsearch API requests over HTTPS on port 443 (i.e., it does not expose the default Elasticsearch port 9200), so a TLS-enabled proxy (e.g., Nginx) can enable CirrusSearch to communicate with an Amazon OpenSearch cluster.

Elastica
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Installation

Even though the instructions below tell you only to run Composer when installing from git, it may be necessary to issue it anyway to install all PHP dependencies.

CirrusSearch

Enable regex queries

This is an optional step. You will need to install the search-extra plugin for this. Do so by following these steps:

  1. execute the following command:
    /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch-plugin/elasticsearch-plugin install org.wikimedia.search:extra:7.10.2-wmf12
    
  2. add the following line to your LocalSettings.php file:
    $wgCirrusSearchWikimediaExtraPlugin[ 'regex' ] = [ 'build', 'use', 'max_inspect' => 10000 ];
    
  3. restart Elasticsearch with the following command:
    systemctl restart elasticsearch
    
  4. recreate the search index by executing the following commands:
    1. php path/to/extensions/CirrusSearch/maintenance/UpdateSearchIndexConfig.php --startOver
      
    2. php path/to/extensions/CirrusSearch/maintenance/ForceSearchIndex.php
      

Upgrading

Please follow the upgrade instructions in the CirrusSearch UPGRADE file.

Configuration

The configuration parameters of CirrusSearch are documented at the "settings.txt" file. See also documentation on CirrusSearch configuration profiles.

Elasticsearch will fail to index for CirrusSearch if one uses a database name for MySQL containing a capital character, e.g., "MyWikiDatabaseName." To mitigate this, CirrusSearch provides the $wgCirrusSearchIndexBaseName configuration parameter, which one needs to set, e.g., $wgCirrusSearchIndexBaseName = 'mywikidatabasename';.

Hooks

CirrusSearch extension defines a number of hooks that other extensions can make use of to extend the core schema and modify documents. The following hooks are available:

API

CirrusSearch features can be used in API queries. Searching happens via the normal search API, action=query&list=search; you can use CirrusSearch-specific features, such as the morelike: special prefix to find pages related to Marie Curie and radium:

api.php?action=query&list=search&srsearch=morelike:Marie_Curie%7Cradium&srlimit=10&srprop=size&formatversion=2

Custom APIs and parameters are provided for querying CirrusSearch configuration and debug information:

See also

General links
Debugging

Local development

Elasticsearch service can be run with the Vagrant role (cirrussearch) and MediaWiki Vagrant.

For Docker, you can use a command like docker run -d --name elasticsearch -p 9200:9200 -p 9300:9300 -e "discovery.type=single-node" elasticsearch:6.8.2. Then follow the installation and configuration directions. If your web host is in a container, you'll want to make sure the above container is on the same network, and in the LocalSettings.php file, you will want to reference the elasticsearch as the hostname. This will not have the WMF plugins but can be sufficient for basic testing.

This extension is being used on one or more Wikimedia projects. This probably means that the extension is stable and works well enough to be used by such high-traffic websites. Look for this extension's name in Wikimedia's CommonSettings.php and InitialiseSettings.php configuration files to see where it's installed. A full list of the extensions installed on a particular wiki can be seen on the wiki's Special:Version page. This extension is included in the following wiki farms/hosts and/or packages: This is not an authoritative list. Some wiki farms/hosts and/or packages may contain this extension even if they are not listed here. Always check with your wiki farms/hosts or bundle to confirm.

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