Hi! I'm working on an intranet site (using Zope). Now I need to make the site searchable. Tried using htdig, but without luck (should it work with zopesites?). Now I wonder - is there a builtin feature in zope that can fix my problem, or are there other programs like htdig that works with zope? Help is much appreciated! Sture Lygren
On Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 10:52:16AM +0100, Raver wrote:
Hi!
I'm working on an intranet site (using Zope). Now I need to make the site searchable. Tried using htdig, but without luck (should it work with zopesites?). Now I wonder - is there a builtin feature in zope that can fix my problem, or are there other programs like htdig that works with zope?
Check out the FAQ on http://zdp.zope.org it has some information on how to use the built-in searching capabilities :-) It's not perfect, and needs lots more work, but it's a start. Chris -- | Christopher Petrilli ``Television is bubble-gum for | petrilli@amber.org the mind.''-Frank Lloyd Wright
At 10:52 AM 3/22/99 +0100, Raver wrote:
I'm working on an intranet site (using Zope). Now I need to make the site searchable. Tried using htdig, but without luck (should it work with zopesites?).
Unless you do something tricky, I doubt you will be able to get normal search engines to work with a Zope site, since I belive that most search engines want to read HTML files from the filesystem for indexing.
Now I wonder - is there a builtin feature in zope that can fix my problem, or are there other programs like htdig that works with zope?
Right now there is a simple Find mechanism, but it isn't really a robust search facility. In addition, Zope now includes low-level Python packages for indexing. So the basic tools are there, but there isn't an easy to use, out of the box search engine in Zope. We're working on a much better solution to this problem. We're calling it Zope Cataloging, and it is currently built with ZTables. I believe that like ZTables, Zope Cataloging will eventually be free, and become a core part of Zope. Unfortunately, I do not have a timeline. Sorry. :-( -Amos
Amos Latteier <amos@aracnet.com> wrote:
I'm working on an intranet site (using Zope). Now I need to make the site searchable. Tried using htdig, but without luck (should it work with zopesites?).
Unless you do something tricky, I doubt you will be able to get normal search engines to work with a Zope site, since I belive that most search engines want to read HTML files from the filesystem for indexing.
[Apologies if this post is considered off-topic on this list] You might want to try Webinator, an outstanding search engine available at: http://www.thunderstone.com/webinator/ It's free to use for up to 10,000 documents. It works by fetching documents over HTTP (not your file system), so it should work with Zope. However, the free version requires an Internet connection to check with the license server, so it might be impractical for an intranet soluition without full Internet access. Hope That Helps, /J ------ ---- --- -- -- -- - - - - - Johan Lindström BossMedia Sourcerer johanl@bahnhof.se http://www.bahnhof.se/~johanl/ If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything tends to look like a nail
On Mon, Mar 22, 1999 at 09:18:12AM -0800, Amos Latteier wrote:
At 10:52 AM 3/22/99 +0100, Raver wrote:
I'm working on an intranet site (using Zope). Now I need to make the site searchable. Tried using htdig, but without luck (should it work with zopesites?).
Unless you do something tricky, I doubt you will be able to get normal search engines to work with a Zope site, since I belive that most search engines want to read HTML files from the filesystem for indexing.
Now I wonder - is there a builtin feature in zope that can fix my problem, or are there other programs like htdig that works with zope?
Right now there is a simple Find mechanism, but it isn't really a robust search facility. In addition, Zope now includes low-level Python packages for indexing. So the basic tools are there, but there isn't an easy to use, out of the box search engine in Zope.
We're working on a much better solution to this problem. We're calling it Zope Cataloging, and it is currently built with ZTables. I believe that like ZTables, Zope Cataloging will eventually be free, and become a core part of Zope. Unfortunately, I do not have a timeline. Sorry. :-(
-Amos
Sounds promising - hurry up will ya! :)
Sture
At Mon, 22 Mar 1999 09:18:12 -0800 Amos Latteier <amos@aracnet.com> wrote:
At 10:52 AM 3/22/99 +0100, Raver wrote:
I'm working on an intranet site (using Zope). Now I need to make the site searchable. Tried using htdig, but without luck (should it work with zopesites?).
Unless you do something tricky, I doubt you will be able to get normal search engines to work with a Zope site, since I belive that most search engines want to read HTML files from the filesystem for indexing.
If your search engine works via http it should work OK with Zope. Thunderstone Webinator (thunderstone.com) does this, and there's a free version that I think will do up to 10,000 docs. (The commercial version costs $700.) There's a command-line switch that tells Webinator to go ahead & index URLs that include /cgi- bin/. -- Wade Leftwich (satisfied Thunderstone customer). Wade Leftwich Okay Network Services, Ithaca NY tel 607-277-1334 fax 607-272-3612
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