diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f29a27f4..8f3ac87c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -41,6 +41,9 @@ sudo ln -s /standardebooks.org/web/config/php/fpm/standardebooks.test-secrets.in
 sudo ln -s /standardebooks.org/web/config/php/fpm/standardebooks.test.conf /etc/php/*/fpm/pool.d/
 sudo systemctl restart "php*-fpm.service"
 
+# Link MariaDB configuration.
+sudo ln -s /standardebooks.org/web/config/mariadb/99-se.cnf /etc/mysql/mariadb.conf.d/
+
 # Create and populate the SE database.
 mariadb < /standardebooks.org/web/config/sql/se.sql
 mariadb < /standardebooks.org/web/config/sql/users.sql
diff --git a/config/mariadb/99-se.cnf b/config/mariadb/99-se.cnf
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..210b2ab1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/mariadb/99-se.cnf
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[mysqld]
+# Decrease the minimum token size for InnoDB fulltext searches to 2, so that we can match titles like <https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/yevgeny-zamyatin/we/gregory-zilboorg>.
+innodb_ft_min_token_size = 2