[Zope] Searching a LocalFS through Zope

[neeloy_saha]

Hi all,

Well I had sent this earlier but i want to resend this again!! I have not
yet received a reply back. 

Can anyone suggest me a way out ???

I have lots of old html/ documents that I want to publish through my zope
portal. To ensure that I do not tweak html files I have used the LocalFS
product, also I do not want to **load the data.fs**. Now. I am running into
search problems. How do i do a search the filesystem file? and also ensure
that the search results come from both the filesystem files and the portal
zcatalog.??

I guess there are two ways ??
** attach a search engine to index on the filesystem files and let zcatalog
take care of the rest.
** or make all those html files zcatalog aware.But then u cant look inside
pdf/latex/word docs or do u??.

I guess I would prefer the first one !! gut feel probably that would require
less effort and I can support different file formats . Has anyone used a
FREE external search engine ith zope before.If so which one is it ???

-neeloy

-----Original Message-----
From: Guido van Rossum [mailto:guido@python.org] 
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 7:53 PM
To: neeloy_saha
Cc: 'pythoneers@beopen.com'; 'info@beopen.com';
'webmaster@pythonlabs.com'
Subject: Re: Migrating website to zope.....


Strange though it seems, we are *not* Zope experts (yet).  We used an
external volunteer to set up our site.  I recommend that you post your
question to one of the Zope mailing lists -- see www.zope.org for
pointers.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

> Subject: Migrating website to zope.....
> From: neeloy_saha <neeloy_saha@infy.com>
> To: "'pythoneers@beopen.com'" <pythoneers@beopen.com>
> Cc: "'info@beopen.com'" <info@beopen.com>,
>     "'webmaster@pythonlabs.com'"
>     <webmaster@pythonlabs.com>
> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 16:00:43 +0530
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Sorry if u receive this mail multiple times.....I need help desperately.
> 
> I am working in a migration project where I am trying to reenginer my
> website from the html/cgi based thing to zope.[something like urs
> http://www.pythonlabs.com/news/08-22-2000-0001.html  ] I have lots of
legacy
> static html documents which I want to use "as it is". So I have taken help
> of the LocalFS (http://www.zope.org/Members/jfarr/Products/LocalFS) and
used
> it to serve the html documents.
> 
> Now I am facing a tricky issue of how to do a search on those files (
html
> )as i do not find any patch which makes them a part of the Zcatalog. I am
> using the Zcatalog to do the search on other contents of my site. 
> 
> I guess u might have faced the same issue and implemented the search. I
> desperately need help on this issue. any pointers/code/patches/contact
> person /how u went abt it!! would be welcome.
> 
> Thx in advance.
> 
> -neeloy
>  India