I used a fresh installation of 3.0.12 and did all my instructions (
2012-03-01 and
2012-03-04 + 2013-07-08), viewed a forum, have gone to the
MCP, saw a list of all topics in that forum (being on page 1 of 2), entering a case insensitive keyword and seeing appropriate results (6 topics, no pagination). Another non-existing keyword brings the expected message aswell. My
search backend was
Fulltext native and
Fulltext mysql - both gave same results. My style was (of course)
prosilver.
I also moved one topic by creating a shadow topic and moved one topic without creating a shadow topic. As expected:
MCP > Main > View forum lists only the shadow topic and a keyword search on either of those brings no results (shadow topics can't be found by keywords).
So far I'm unable to reproduce any of your errors. As a general approach: create a separate fresh installation and redo all the modifications, making sure it works as expected. Using
prosilver. If it doesn't even work right there we have something to start with. Otherwise compare the installations (on
Windows with i.e.
WinMerge) to see potential mistakes.