According to Chad M. Stewart: > Gilles, > > I hope you don't mind me contacting you directly, but from my searching of the > archives indicates that you know htdig well. If you ever have a question > about iPlanet Messaging Server I can return the favor. :)
I don't mind, but I do generally put htdig-related mail that's off-list at the back of the queue. If you'd prefer a faster response, the mailing list is a better option. > I found your note here, > http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/8825/2001/3/0/5440702/ and read it and I > agree with you that newbies have a hard time understanding > url_part_aliases. I understand that it is a compression algorithm. What I > don't understand is the syntax of such. The way I understand it during index > A-->B and then during search B-->A. If that is right then I don't think it > will help my situation. I'd be happy to take a crack at writing a newbie > understandable example of it, if I only understood the syntax. I wrote that note back in March of last year. Since then, there has been a lot more discussion, and I've made changes to the documentation for url_part_aliases in the new 3.1.6 release, as well as substantial additions to http://www.htdig.org/FAQ.html#q4.17 to explain the common pitfalls when people ignore the documentation's recommendations. Please have another look and see if that doesn't help you understand how to use this attribute. > Here is what I want to do and I can not figure out how to do it. > > I indexed files using 'http://mgate/ims/' as the start_url. When I do a > search I get 'http://mgate/ims' back as the start of the url, expected. The > problem is that the host, mgate, is not accessible from everywhere. If I do > the search from my LAN the resulting http://mgate/... is valid. If you were > to do the search http://mgate/... would be invalid. If I made the URL valid > for you, then it would be invalid for my LAN. > > From the LAN the hostnames mgate and mgate.amotken.com are valid and > reachable. From the Internet those hostnames are invalid. People on the > Internet can reach the exact same content by using www.balius.com. I can not > use www.balius.com while on my LAN that would be invalid. > > Thus my quandry of how to have the host part of the URL changed. I don't mind > having two different search pages, one for LAN one for WAN. If that is the > way to solve my quandry then how to I get the search from the Internet side to > be changed to say www.balius.com when the data was indexed using mgate? That's a pretty simple application of url_part_aliases. This would only need one pair of strings in the definition, with the left-hand-side changing in the search config file used on the Internet side. -- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/~grdetil Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Phone: (204)789-3766 Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) Fax: (204)789-3930 _______________________________________________ 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
