Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 19:19:35 -0600 (MDT) From: "Andrew N. Edmond" <edmond@shaman.lycaeum.org> To: Jim Riffle <jriffle@rif.kconline.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WWW Search Engine? (SOLUTION!) Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.93.960925190939.26526z-100000@shaman.lycaeum.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.960925153743.9350A-100000@rif.kconline.com>
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> > I am trying to provide a WWW search engine on my FreeBSD box, and have > > installed Excite (in it's current incarnation, it doesn't work even with > > the 2.2 kernel - well, it does, but not on a 250meg WWW directory) and am > > told that the new version (coming out in 2 weeks) will not be > > significantly improved software design-wise. Harvest is a convoluted > > mess... are there other search engine options for FreeBSD? > > I have Excite running on a 2.2-Current and a 2.1.5 machine. Neither of > these have 250 meg WWW directories though. > > Basically what I have found is it just doesn't like the perl binariry > shipped with it. Replacing that, and a few other things,has made it > work flawlessly for both of my sites. Yeah - I basically took the Architext.tar.gz, replaced the perl binary with the /usr/bin/perl4 binary in freebsd, retar'd it, and then installed from there with the supplied script. Worked fine - got all the way through, even the AT-start.cgi and AT-admin.cgi programs worked flawlessly. The program was INSTALLED, but when I went to build from the root directory I got an error. When I indexed from a smaller directory (under 50 megs) it worked fine. > I am concerned about what you say though. One of my web servers probablly > has around 150 Megs of stuff on it. If it is going to crap out when more > data gets in there, I sure would like to know. > > What exactly is the problem with the 250 Meg tree? Or is that 250 megs in > just one directory? Did you have the install script install the thing? > If not, I can fill you in on how I got mine to work with that, it was a > pain getting it installed. Is it having troubles making your index with > that many megs? Well, I have leared that Excite *sucks* - the new version coming out (supposedly) in 2 days is said to fix these problems, but now they have pushed back the date for BSDI binaries for another 2 months. So, I was forced to seek an Excite Alternative. I found one, and in my opinion it's MUCH better (I guarantee anyone fed up with Excite will like this): http://htdig.sdsu.edu/ Which is like Excite in client and server execution, but with more features, more customizable, and you get the *source*, and it's free under the GNU license. It took me 15 minutes to download, install, and configure, and an hour to read/index/merge my 250 meg tree on a Pentium Pro 200mhz machine. If you want to see how my engine was customized and configured: http://www.lycaeum.org/ (search from the middle of the page). I also tried before settling on HtDig: WebGlimpse, swish+glimpse and harvest - all of which are much inferior to HtDig. Give it a try, you'll like it! Andy ........................................................................... . Andrew Edmond ..... American Libertarian ** VOTE ** . .. edmond@lycaeum.org ..... End the War on Drugs .. ... University of Wyoming ..... HARRY BROWNE FOR PRESIDENT / 1996 ... .... Botany Department ....... http://www.harrybrowne96.org/ .... ....................... the Lycaeum ....................................... -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQCNAzGauk0AAAEEANjORiZVrD98GS+vkJv+36CLC5Agifk8ra61i3i+Ms2115uK 9WoeUBA2J9QkjG+dM6tEOkPtrnZFkahFbOsDT0Rh46eBktdAp7IXY5M2zN4r1bWt x6w4b//ffkfRbrTinovxXYLJa5oASudlQbNkVpqAOAH1fdTO3xFsi69/gtsxAAUR tCJBbmRyZXcgRWRtb25kIDxlZG1vbmRAbHljYWV1bS5vcmc+tBBBbmRyZXcgTi4g RWRtb25k =l080 -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
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