G'day All, There has been an ongoing need for the Debian website to be searchable. Someone emailled the webmasters and said why not look at udmsearch (http://mysearch.udm.net/ ) so I did.
It's quite an interesting model, what they've done, here is some evil ascii art about it website --> indexer --> postgresql [indexing the site] search page (php) <-- postgresql [searching the site] You can have most of these components on different machines if you like. The indexer would be run once a day (say) but uses HTTP IMS queries to check if it needs to update that page. The search page is tiny and is just php3 talking postgresql. It looks like it will do the job, it also speaks different languages though I'm not sure how it does it. I'd like to run it on the website in some sort of test mode first. If we do use it I believe we will get some help from the udmsearch people. Not sure of course but they seem approachable. What machines can I run it on? I've packaged the program up but still not released it yet. It will be soon. Any comments? - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ, PGP: AD 8D D8 63 6E BF C3 C7 47 41 B1 A2 1F 46 EC 90 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.eye-net.com.au/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIEEE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
