Problem resolved. I removed the "Disallow: /index" from robots.txt.
FWIW
ht://Dig 3.2.0b3
wwwoffled version 2.7a
Thanks - once I realised that */search/index had hidden links the rest was
easy :-)
Ronnie
On 31 Mar 2002, Andrew M. Bishop wrote:
> Ronnie Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I have been using wwwoffle for a couple of years and only recently decided
> > to get the htdig search operational - with minimal success. I upgraded to
> > 2.7a, from source, this week from 2.6d on RedHat 7.2 (Intel). The original
> > cache was xfered from another machine that ran 2.5x and was converted to
> > work with 2.6d (months ago).
> >
> > 0. I can only search the WWWOFFLE FAQ & Welcome pages with htdig.
>
> I use htdig with WWWOFFLE (I don't use the other search options
> although I have tested them). I don't have any problems, so I believe
> that it works in the default installation (my installation is not very
> different from the default).
>
> What are the error messages that you get from htdig?
No errors - just nothing indexed.
> > 1. I changed htdig-full.conf to point to a existing page in the cache and
> > got a lot of good stuff pluss a zillion refresh requests that I did not
> > need. It kind of confirmed that the basic search is working.
>
> The htdig configuration file is set up to search to a depth of 4. This
> is why the first search index page is start4.html so that the depth 4
> pages are the cached ones and no further links are followed.
>
> There should not be any refresh requests since WWWOFFLE should detect
> that it is htdig that is requesting the page and not store the
> request.
Noticed in the source - to rusty to realistically follow the logic though.
> > 2. The localhost:8080/search/index/ page is empty (link from
> > localhost:8080/search/start4.html)
>
> It may look empty, but if you examine the source code you should find
> that it is not really empty.
Lynx cleared that one up.
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