On Mon, 08 May 2000, Chris Beaumont wrote:

I have a newbie question.

I'm going to be adding a dynamically generated Zope core to a static website (over 5500 HTML documents) and if it's at all possible, I'd like to be able to search both parts of the site from one interface.

I was thinking that it would be possible if I could use a spidering web crawler, rather than one that looked at the filesystem. I'm assuming that it wouldnt be possible to use the search engine in Zope to search external content, but I know that since I'm new to Zope, I might be wrong..

We're considering the very same thing, and as a test ran Infoseek against zope.org, and what we discovered says that this approach works just fine.

I am sure that others have walked this road before me. What were your experiences, what did you use (the platform is debian linux) And is this a valid approach?