[Steven Zahm]

@ jon

I suspect the tables were created with the InnoDB db engine which does not support FULLTEXT indexes in the version of MySQL installed on the server.

Log into the webhost’s control panel for your site and use the phpMyAdmin tool to check the table engine being used and if it is InnoDB, change the Connections tables to MyISAM. After you do that, then toggle the FULLTEXT setting in Connections so the FULLTEXT indexes will be created by the database.

Hope that helps!