Re: search engine

Please allow me to pass along a message posted to this list just a day or
two ago. Please note the very kind guy who originated it, and credit him
accordingly.

HTH,
Fuzzy

>Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:40:54 -0600
>From: Jim Tom Polk <jtpolk(at)texas.net>
>Organization: JTPages Web Authoring and Design
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>Subject: Re: Thinking outside the box
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>I would recommend using htdig. You can pick up an RPM file from:
>
>http://www.htdig.org/
>
>Click on Where to get it link, then check out the contributed binary
>releases. Some releases of RedHat have it included on the installation
>CD-ROMS (it is on powertools and some web server applications). If you
>want to find if it is already installed, try doing this command:
>
>rpm -q htdig
>
>If not, then download and install an htdig rpm then install via:
>
>rpm -Uvh htdig*.rpm
>
>in the direcctory where you have uploaded/downloaded the RPM file.
>
>If your's is the only site on this server, you can adjust the indexing
>either via the interface or via the config file, which would probably be
>located in /etc/htdig.conf.
>
>You can adjust the look and feel via templates (for the header and
>footer and body), and you can make many adjustments for how it indexes
>pages, giving weight for various parts of the web page (like headings,
>title) and it also handles meta-tags, either the normal keywords and
>description, but also self defined. I just keep the defaults.
>
>We have been using htdig since May of 1998 with absolutely no problems
>whatsover. One of it's features is that you can span many servers (like
>you can index http://someserver.com and also
>http://www.nowhereserver.com/ and have them combined into one searchable
>index. We currently index about 175 servers.
>
>Oh, and you can do a search for htdig on redhat.com, and there you will
>find some documentation for using PHP for the interface.
>
>good luck!!
>
>
>-- 
>
>
>Jim Tom Polk -:- jtpolk(at)texas.net -:- http://camalott.com/~jtpolk/	
>	''You might as well fall flat on your face as 
>	  lean over too far backwards.''      --James Thurber--
>   "The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three 
>          elements: energy, matter and enlightened self-interest." 
> 		- G'Kar  "Survivors"
>
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