On 7/17/2009 11:25 AM, Brion Vibber wrote: > Tod wrote: >> This is my first post and I think I've selected the appropriate list. >> Please let me know if there is a better place to post my question. >> >> I have a client with an installed search engine that they don't want to >> part with. I have used it to index their installed instance of MW. Is >> there a way to integrate the searching of their repository into the >> onboard MW search? > > You can write a SearchEngine plugin which will call out to your search > backend and display results within Special:Search on the wiki; see the > MWSearch extension for an example -- that's what we use on Wikipedia to > hit our Lucene-based search servers. > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MWSearch > > > Alternatively you can set $wgSearchForwardUrl to simply pass search reqs > on to an outside URL. However, search results then won't be shown in > MediaWiki user interface, and won't be available through the API interface. > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgSearchForwardUrl > > -- brion > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >
Thanks Brion, just what I was looking for. - Tod _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
