Geoff, Sorry to bring this topic back, but it is not working! I must apologize in advance, but in order to adequately explain the situation, some background and detail is necessary.
THE BEFORE CONFIGURATION: Top page (http://web.../index.html) was a frames based page; dumb header at the top, navigation buttons down the left side, main content window to the right of the nav buttons and below the header. The "htdig.conf" file was pointing at the root URL of this server and one other at our site. Life was good, and everything was working as it had in preliminary testing. (We are running HT-Dig 3.1.5 on a Solaris 5.6/Apache 3.1.12 web server.) THE CURRENT CONFIGURATION Top page is now "index.cfm", and takes advantage of several <CFINCLUDE> tags to build the actual main page. Presently, there are three main pieces: the header (header.cfm), the main body (index.cfm), and a footer (footer.cfm). Index.cfm pulls in the header.cfm and footer.cfm pieces to make a complete page. The _new_ header is a lot more intelligent than the old nav panel, with cascading menus built out of JavaScript. The footer.cfm file is pretty dumb right now, simply displaying a standard date and Copyright notice. The entire site was built using Dreamweaver 4.0. (I hope it is well understood just how ColdFusions <CFINCLUDE> tags assembles individual chunks of HTML and ultimately delivers a complete HTML page back to the browser. The page that the viewer sees within his or her browser does not actually exist anywhere on the WEB server itself!) One of the things that is embeded in the new header is the HT-Dig search link for our site, which is how I discovered that the spider wasn't indexing. The only stuff that is getting indexed under this new scheme is the stuff that is linked directly from the main page (the top level "index.cfm" page). Since most of the links to "other stuff" within the site is navigated to via the cascading JavaScript menus (contained in the "header.cfm" file), I tried making it one of the URL's in the "htdig.conf" file. This seems to make no difference whatsoever in the outcome. Under the BEFORE config, when "rundig" was run, it would take about 15-30 minutes to index the entire site. There are about 20K documents on the site in question. Now, indexing takes all of about 5-10 seconds! If I run "rundig" with the "-v" switch, I of course get some additional diagnostics about the dig itself, but not much that is worthwhile. And there is nothing in the output that would give me a clue as to why it isn't doing the same job it did before. I have started going back to reread some of the documentation, but haven't seen anything thus far that is too encouraging. Within the Config file, there is something about being able to create a file with a list of URL's that should be indexed, but I don't see anything about the format such a file would take. Would I enter one URL per line? Would I want to reference each "top level" page of my site in order to pick up all the links contained therein? If it hasn't been obvious up to now, this is something of an urgent plea for help, as it now appears that with our newly formatted, ColdFusion based site, that HT-Dig is dead in the water! I will be most appreciative of anyone who can provide the "magic wand" to get this all working again. Jim Augeri Honeywell International Inc. Defense Avionics Systems 9201 San Mateo Blvd NE Albuquerque, NM 87113 Off: 505.828.5808 Fax: 505.828.5500 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Geoff Hutchison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 8:10 AM To: Augeri, Jim (NM75) Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [htdig] Cold Fusion (.cfm) files and HT://Dig At 10:12 AM -0700 1/4/02, Augeri, Jim (NM75) wrote: >Will Ht://Dig still continue to index everything correctly? Sure. If the output is HTML (or text or PDF or whatever), it doesn't matter how the page is assembled. Indexing works with PHP, SSI, ColdFusion, CGI, etc. >Is there any way to continue to use HTML META tags to some meaningful >purpose? >And what about the Ht://Dig unique tags, such as the e-mail notification >tags, etc? >Can anyone suggest an appropriate page structure to take ample advantage of >both >the CF and Ht://Dig capabilities? These seem like they have more to do with using ColdFusion, but I'm sure you can add HTML META tags (including ht://Dig unique ones) just fine with ColdFusion. However, since I've never used the product, I'll leave this to anyone who may have more experience. -- -- -Geoff Hutchison Williams Students Online http://wso.williams.edu/ _______________________________________________ htdig-general mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with a subject of unsubscribe FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html
