Re: [htdig] site mirroring

[Martin A. <al...@ar...>]

			Hi Mick...


On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 08:26:22AM +0930, Ninti Systems wrote:
> I've almost finished building an intranet (Slackware, Apache, PHP,
> MySQL, HtDig, proFTPd) for an indigenous health organisation here in
> Central Australia. They like it and now wish to make the same content
> available to more remote offices from their public website (separate
> site on totally separate server). The public site is hosted by a regular
> ISP, so we are limited in terms of what we can do on that server.=20
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> We're looking at simply mirroring the intranet's content to the public
> server, without all the upload/admin backend stuff necessary.
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> I'm wondering, if we copied htsearch and mirrored the htdig databases,
> would that be enough to allow searches of the content? The htdig install
> on the public server wouldn't have to do any indexing or database
> building, just return search results.=20

First of all, rsync'ing the databases would be enough, if you have the same
config on the public server. But I see two possible problems:

a) Servername of public and intranet server differ
   If this is the case, htdig on the public server would return wrong URL's.
   You may have to fix that with the search_rewrite_rules directive.

b) Some intranet content is not for public use
   If you stripped them already out from the webtree, htdig still knows
   them as they are still part of the htdig database.
   So you have to work with restrictions on the search.

Yours,

Martin

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