According to Hinrich Specht: > I�m looking for a search engine to be used in an intranet solution. There > are pdf-files placed in a directory that is not part of the webroot (and for > some security reasons it must not be part of it). The pdf-files in this > directory should be indexed by the search engine...
Well, if security is a concern, wouldn't it defeat that security to put a searchable index of these documents up on your web site? (See http://www.htdig.org/FAQ.html#q4.20) Or are you looking for a non-web based search interface? The htsearch program can be configured to run from a shell script and give plain text results. > now my question: Is htdig able to > search in the local filesystem (outside webroot) - or, if not: Can anyone > suggest a way to solve the problem? One idea might be to have a dedicated > webserver installed and to make the pdf-directories the webroot of this webserver, > then only let the searchengine have access to it ?!?!? Well, a dedicated, secure and password-contolled web server might be a solution to the problem, but there are other ways. With the local_urls attribute, you can convince or trick htdig to look elsewhere for files (even outside of the DocumentRoot), by mapping http:// URLs to specific local directories. Also, with the recent 3.2.0b4 snapshots, you can get htdig to index file:/ URLs too. -- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/ Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) _______________________________________________________________ Multimillion Dollar Computer Inventory Live Webcast Auctions Thru Aug. 2002 - http://www.cowanalexander.com/calendar _______________________________________________ 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
