At 08:35 AM 02/08/02 -0800, Rich Thomas wrote:
>How does one configure swish to index a directory tree of html files? I've
>looked at the DirTree.pl example and am having a tough time underdatnding
>the -S prog concept I guess.
>Where do I tell it what the top level directory is? Since these are all
>html files I don't need the pdf format conversion so I can comment that out
Here's the overview of -S prog: Instead of -i or IndexDir pointing to a
file or directory, with -S prog those point to program(s). If more than
one program is listed it will run them one after another.
e.g. I index one site where part of the site is static pages and I use
spider.pl, and the other is dynamically generated via MySQL database, so I use
Indexdir ./spider.pl ./indexMySQL.pl
But often with programs you want to pass parameters. It all depends on the
program. spider.pl, for example, if no parameters are passed it will look
for a default config file for its parameters. But if you want to pass
parameters to a -S prog program you use:
For example with spider.pl you can say
and the spider will then use config.pl for it's parameters. With
DirTree.pl it expects a starting directory (or directories).
In DirTree.pl it start off like:
wanted => \&wanted,
# no_chdir => 1, # 5.6 feature
@ARGV is the parameter list passed to DirTree.pl by swish (via
DirTree.pl is just suppose to be a template for you to build on. If you
don't know perl, you can use another programming language. Or a shell script.
>Would I do something like swish-e -S prog -i ./DirTree.pl ? And if so...
>how do I tell it what to index?
SwishProgParameters /dir/to/index /other/dir/to/index
Received on Fri Feb 8 17:35:46 2002