Re: [htdig] allow_numbers: true not working

[Alan M. <al...@ti...>]

Jim,

Jim wrote:

> On Sat, 19 Mar 2005, Alan McGill wrote:
>
>> I've got these settings in the .conf file, yet a search for any word 
>> that begins with numbers returns no results.
>> search_algorithm:    exact:1 synonyms:0.5 endings:0.1
>> allow_numbers: true
>> rundig is run as cron every morning.
>> Does anyone have an idea what might be wrong?  Or anything I should try?
>
>
> Do searches appear to be working correctly otherwise? You shouldn't even
> need to enable allow_numbers in order to pick up terms that begin with
> numbers, unless those terms consist only of numbers.
>
> Have you verified that the pages that contain the expected terms are in
> fact being indexed? Have you or your host made any other modifications
> to the config file being used for indexing?
>
> Jim


You've hit the nail on the head (my dense head). I was misinterpreting 
the results I was getting. In fact numbers were working on the pages 
that were indexed.

Thanks for pointing me in the right directions with questions I should 
have asked myself.

alan