We are running RH2.1 AS and Verity works fine for us. We are going to upgrade to 3 in the near future. We have just upgraded to CFMX 7.
The vspider did not work in CFMX 6.1, as Steven Erat points out. I ended up modifying a open source Java spidering program I found to perform the spidering of our site. I did run into issues with indexing PDF due to Verity supporting certain versions of the PDF standard. Again, I found found XPDF (http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/) and their pdftotext tool works on all versions of the PDF standard that we have tried. <cf_2cents> Upgrade to CFMX 7 and stick with Verity. If you run into difficulties use this list for assistance. (From personal experience Steven Erat is the man) </cf_2cents> Doug James Hollings Cancer Center Ken Petri wrote: > And does anyone know if Verity is working on the *supported* distros? We run > RH3 Enterprise. In CFMX6.1 Verity worked only in limited fashion (certain > types of documents, including PDF and Word could not be indexed), radically > limiting its functionality. Additionally, the verity spider didn't work at > all. > > Our institution spent money on a tech support incident with Macromedia, only > to find out that, yes, I was correct, these things did not work. The > documentation on what was supported and what worked or didn't was limited, > necessitating us spending money to find out that a major function of CFMX was > simply broken in linux. > > I've heard the "use Lucene" reply, as well. But that's absurd. ColdFusion > isn't cheap and Linux users pay just as much as Windows users. Verity should > just work! Plain and simple. If I want a Lucene-implemented CF search and > spidering facility on Linux, Windows, or Mac OS X, I can get the *free* > version of BlueDragon and, voila, it works perfectly. Obviously, BlueDragon > is behind the feature curve compaired to MX7. So I'd rather stick with CF. > But I'll wait until I hear what users have to say before upgrading from 6.1. > > If Macromedia can't prompt Verity to fully support linux filesystems, then > Macromedia should dump Verity and write their own tool. > > I'd be very curious to know what experiences people have had with Verity > indexing and spidering in version 7 on RH and other distros. I would hope > things would be fixed.... I'll be watching this thread. > > ken > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:14:3892 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/14 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:14 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.14 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
