On Sun, Sep 11, 2022 at 12:26 PM Odhiambo Washington <odhia...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Sun, Sep 11, 2022 at 11:01 AM Stephen J. Turnbull < > stephenjturnb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Odhiambo Washington writes: >> >> > What is the simplest way to add a searchbox for the archives? >> >> If you're talking about about Mailman 2's Pipermail, you need to >> install and configure a separate application. I think HT:Dig is most >> popular, but I've only used Namazu, which worked well for me. There's >> a detailed FAQ on it: https://wiki.list.org/x/4030514, which says >> there are maintained branches on LaunchPad with patches to integrate >> HT:Dig. That may be easiest. Mark will know more when he gets back. >> >> Another formerly somewhat popular approach is to substitute MHonArc >> for Pipermail, although that software is quite old now, and I'm not >> sure about its security status. >> >> Steve >> > > Hi Steve, > > Great that you are using namazu. I hope you can help me with the bits I am > stuck about using it. > > I have found a detailed HOWTO > <http://bakacsin.ki.iif.hu/~kissg/project/mailman+namazu/#nmzproc> for > installing it on Linux, but I use FreeBSD. > I have installed namazu on FreeBSD and configured it using the guide > (while conforming to the FreeBSD file system layout), but I have two > problems: > > 1. I am getting too many messages from cron which I am unable to address > because I am not a perl programmer: > > Useless use of greediness modifier '?' in regex; marked by <-- HERE in > m/^\w+:{1,1}? <-- HERE / at /usr/local/share/namazu/filter/mp3.pl line > 155. > > I wonder if doing away with the "?" on that regex is sufficient. I have > done that, but I am unsure how it affects the indexing. > > 2. The next step that I am not getting clear is how to now include the > search box in each list's archive. > In the guide, there is a section that talks about having > /etc/mailman/*/{archtoc.html | archtocnombox.html} and I get lost right > there. > My mailman is installed in /usr/local/mailman2/ and nothing exists as > /etc/mailman/ (which I believe is Linux file system layout). > Where should I place these two files - archtoc.html and archtocnombox.html > - and how do I now integrate them in the whole setup to get the searchbox? > > Thanks in advance. > Answering myself on #2, I did figure out that the two files should go to my templates/{language}/ as drop-in replacements. I have done that but accessing the archives of my list still do not bring the search box as shown here - https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/pipermail/kictanet/ - and I am thinking that there's something minor that I am still missing. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 "Oh, the cruft.", egrep -v '^$|^.*#' ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :-) ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list -- mailman-users@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to mailman-users-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/mailman-users.python.org/ Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: https://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/ https://mail.python.org/archives/list/mailman-users@python.org/
