Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!europa.clark.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!gail.ripco.com!dr From: dr@ripco.com (David Richards) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix Subject: Web sitewide index/search? Followup-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix Date: 8 Feb 1997 05:22:52 GMT Organization: Ripco Communications Inc. Lines: 25 Message-ID: <5dh2jc$73i$1@gail.ripco.com> References: <macwhiz-ya023680000702972107520001@news.rochester.ican.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: rci.ripco.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35221 comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix:25458 In article <macwhiz-ya023680000702972107520001@news.rochester.ican.net>, Rob Levandowski <macwhiz@phoebe.rochester.ican.net> wrote: >What's available for high-speed, feature rich search engines that will run >on FreeBSD 2.2 using the Apache httpd? What kind of load can a Pentium 166 >sustain with such a setup? I'll assume you're talking about software to provide a searchable index of your web site, rather than trying to build your own Altavista web spider? I know of several good, free choices: 1. WWWWais with indexes built via SWISH. 2. Excite for Web Servers (supports BSDI). 3. Harvest (derived from GLIMPSE) All support basic AND/OR queries, the performance is primarily limited by the speed and size of available disk space and RAM. In most cases, rebuilding the index is much more of a load than searches, so it's a good idea to only rebuild the full index when absolutely required. -- David Richards Ripco, since Nineteen-Eighty-Three My opinions are my own, Public Access in Chicago But they are available for rental Shell/SLIP/PPP/UUCP/ISDN/Leased dr@ripco.com (773) 665-0065 !Free Usenet/E-Mail!