Re: [htdig] PDF-SEARCH

[Gilles D. <gr...@sc...>]

According to Martin Joisten:
> I have to admit not having followed this problem so far, but when 
> Natalya writes "I don't get error message, but I  have never .pdf-Files 
> in my search-List!!!", I wonder if a simple misunderstanding is the 
> cause for the trouble...
> 
> For my understanding htdig doesn't index all the files in a subdirectory 
> but only follows URLs which it finds on "webpages". So if no URL points 
> to a PDF-File, no PDF will be indexed and therefore no PDF will show up 
> in the search list.
> 
> I wanted to index PDFs once and specially created a single PHP File that 
> would browse through the subdirectories recursively and simple create a 
> page with links to all the PDF Files found.
> 
> I pointed htdig to this particular file and "voila" - all of the PDF 
> Files were indexed. So maybe this is the problem - no links to the PDF 
> Files.
> 
> If this point had already been cleared in previous mails concerning this 
> issue, I apologize for not having read these.

I raised the issue very briefly in my reply to Natalya yesterday.  I.e.:

> >>>Also, make sure you have links in your HTML files to all PDF files you
> >>>want to index.  (See http://www.htdig.org/FAQ.html#q5.25)

However, this is just one possibility among many possible trouble spots,
and the test results from attempting to index a single PDF, using the
URL of the PDF as start_url, suggest there's another problem at play here.
I think it's important to get htdig working with a single PDF before
tackling the bigger issue of whether it can find multiple ones.

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Gilles R. Detillieux              E-mail: <gr...@sc...>
Spinal Cord Research Centre       WWW:    http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/
Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba  Winnipeg, MB  R3E 3J7  (Canada)