Re: search results on your mirror site

On Dec 15, 2002, Gabor Hojtsy wrote: > Dear PHP Mirror site providers! > > We appreciate that you intend to provide local search support on your > mirror. As we review our search system, we found out, that unfortunately > only a few mirror sites are said to have local search support installed. > While reviewing how these setups work, we found that your mirror sites > probably lack the index in which the htdig program can search. > > Any of your mirror sites results in a "Sorry, no documents matched > your search..." when searched for "install" (which should produce > approx. 800-1000 results). This is not true, as the search returns about 203 hits: "203 documents match your search for 'install' on the PHP website:" The small number is alright, because I've set up htdig to only create indexes of the german and english manual, and I did remove cal.php from the index. This does speed up indexing, search and most significantly the quality of the results (mainly because the first results were mostly right manual pages, but in languages other than the two most important for our mirror). If this is something you don't want for an official server, I will re-enable full indexing. One thing that is not nice in our search page, is that htdig does find matching documents but is not able to show the part of the text where the actual match is found. I'm working on it - but I don't mind if someone has a hint... :) > Please check your mirror site setups, and correct the indexes so your > local search can work again. In case you would not like to offer local > search anymore, please report it to us, so we can remove the setting > from your mirror site. You can also simply remove the configuration.inc > file to disable search for your mirror immediately, but please inform > us too about your local search status changes, so we have an updated > list about mirror sites. No - we would like to continue to offer local search support. :) > While you correct your mirror setup, please also note, that we > introduced a new vhost setting (see http://php.net/mirroring) > to > specify the htdig shell script's path. If you set that vhost config > option, you can delete your configuration.inc file. We intend to use > the vhost option instead of the configuration.inc file, so the > configuration.inc file is soon to be unused, please move your > htdig path to your vhost configuration. I adjusted our virtualhosts settings accoring to your advice. Regards, Alex -- Alex Kiesel PGP Key: 0x09F4FA11 Schlund+Partner Entwicklung Unix The problem with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back!