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The previously highest rated answer is deprecated. As of Django 1.10 there is no more search field lookup for MySQL databases (see the search section in the 1.10 documentation).

The release notes for 1.10 also propose a solution to this, by defining a custom lookup:

###__search query lookup

The search lookup, which supports MySQL only and is extremely limited in
features, is deprecated. Replace it with a custom lookup:

from django.db import models

class Search(models.Lookup):
   lookup_name="search"

   def as_mysql(self, compiler, connection):
       lhs, lhs_params = self.process_lhs(compiler, connection)
       rhs, rhs_params = self.process_rhs(compiler, connection)
       params = lhs_params + rhs_params
       return 'MATCH (%s) AGAINST (%s IN BOOLEAN MODE)' % (lhs, rhs), params

models.CharField.register_lookup(Search)
models.TextField.register_lookup(Search)

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