Re: [htdig] Documents found in index of site not showing up in search

[Jim <li...@yg...>]

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Cassio, Karyn wrote:

> I have a situation where some documents are being successfully indexed
> according to the verbose results of the index. However, when I try to run a
> search on information I know is in one of these documents I cannot get them
> to show up in the search results. I even did a restrictive search to the

You might try dumping the databases to ensure that the terms you are using 
are actually surviving the full indexing process. Even if htdig sees them,
they may be dropped by htpurge (or htmerge if you are using 3.1.x).

> specified directory; still I didn't have any success. The documents are
> about 6 folders down, but the links are actually only one folder down from
> the root of the site.  I would think at least a restrictive search should
> reap some kind of result.
>
> I seem to remember seeing something about an option to tell the search how
> far to go, but I don't remember where I saw that.

The attribute is max_hop_count.

   http://www.htdig.org/attrs.html#max_hop_count

However the default for this attribute is a very large number and would
not prevent the documents in question from being indexed (unless of course
it was manually set to 0 at some point).


Jim