[Typo3] caching of pages does not work

[Rainer (Rene) Suthoelder]

page.config.index_enable = 1

in page setup should really be sufficient to start indexing.

after that, clear all cache and log out of typo3. browse your site to get 
some pages indexed, login again and you should see some pages being cached 
and indexed.
also, make sure that you don't use any extensions that block caching (older 
tt_news versions did so, for example). or configure those extensions to 
allow caching, since only cached pages are indexed.

i also had a <!--TYPO3SEARCH_begin--> and <!--TYPO3SEARCH_end--> tag in my 
template file to specify which sections should be indexed - i don't know 
whether this is still necessary or not.

rainer