RE: Search engine blues...

I had posted in the past the following to compile htdig under RH9. CXXFLAGS=-Wno-deprecated CPPFLAGS=-Wno-deprecated \ ../configure --prefix=/usr/local/htdig --with-cgi-bin-dir=/usr/local/htdig/bin \ --with-image-dir=/usr/local/htdig/gifs --with-image-url-prefix=/images \ --with-search-dir=/usr/local/htdig/conf I had compile problems with htdig 3.2.0 even with the above command. Instead I used 3.1.6 and everything works great. Also I had another mistake... By default when you compile apache it creates an alias /manual for the user pages in httpd.conf. Php.net stores its manual pages under /manual and I hadn't noticed that. So the indexer would fail after a while. Removed the alias from httpd.conf and the indexer works great after that time. I'm actually using htdig only for the mirror but for the company's webpage I use mnogo which I find much better. Goba mentioned it also that it is a lot better than htdig but we need somebody that will post some sort instructions on how to make it work with php.net (it shouldn't be very hard I guess) Regards, Spyros > -----Original Message----- > From: Adolfo Garcia Veytia [mailto:adolfo.garcia@uservers.net] > Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2003 12:17 AM > To: webmaster@php.net > Subject: Search engine blues... > > > Hello all.. > We are about to upgrade all of our servers to redhat 9 > but in our tests, we have been unable to run a stable > htdig. I don't know what the problem is, but we have decided > to stop hosting htdig services for our clients, and the > same applies for mx.php.net. > > The indexing programs of htdig always fail under RH9 and > even worse, I have gotten our test server frozen several > times when running the indexer. > > It seems to me that the htdig proyect is a bit dead. The last > release was on feb '02 and only using the latest cvs I > managed to compile it. Don't get me wrong we have used htdig a lot > and I really like it, but I think time has cought up with it. > > Now, I've been looking at the mnogosearch functions and they > seem far more flexible and, better yet, they;re built into php. > > Why has nobody considered using mnogo for php.net? Is it > unstable? I think the best of it is that it is not a CGI like htdig. > > Adolfo Garcia > MX Mirror > > >