[Zope] Make site searchable

[Wade Leftwich]

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
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