mirco

Hi all,

I am using joomla and having a file repository (doc, pdf...) and i want to let my visitors searching on the file content.

Is CPANEL compatible with Swish-E (search indexer) or is there another solution that i can implement for that ?


Thanks a lot for your help.

Geoff

hm, you want it to search cpanel files/directories? dont think that is recommended, or even useful in any way?

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mirco

Hi Geoff,

thank you for the reply.

My need is to offer a search facility on my website permitting searching on file content.

My website contain a document repository (pdf, ppt, doc, xls..) and my visitors when they lanch a search request with keywords will have a result if there keywords are on the file title or on the file description (stored in mysql tables).In the current situation if the keywords exists on the file content and don't exist on the title or on the description they will not have a positive result.
You may agree that is not the best way.

in my recent research i have found 2 solutions :

1. converting all my files (pdf, ppt, doc, xls..) to xml format and populate them on mysql database to be searchable.
2. or installing a search index (like microsoft index called catalog or swish-e or glimpse) in order to index all the files content stored in a specified directory not all ones in my server and be able to return a positive result when the keyword is indexed.
   

As i readed recently, glimpse can be added as an add on cpanel and swish is using a perl api called by php so i may added in the perl module so both are normally feasible !

I am asking to have a feedback from surmunity member if someones have implemented some of these solutions, how to implement them or is there another better way to do what i want.

Thanks a lot for any help.

DewKnight

I've used this on a site: http://www.xav.com/scripts/search/

Not sure if it's what you're really looking for, but I know you can set it up to read pdf files (with a plugin). I think you can set it up to read office files as well

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Geoff

okay, i dont know anything about Swish-E

but there is a feature in cpanel, if enabled, allows use of some free cgi scripts. one called entropy search. If its enabled, you should be able to see it listed under

http://yourdomain:2082/frontend/x3/cgi/index.html (provided you are using cpanel11 with x3 theme) or simply look for "cgi center" under your cpanel account

anyways, that might do what you need? dont know how efficient it is with joomla repositories and pdf/etc files.

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Geoff Ellis - Surpass Dedicated Server Customer
www.adepttechs.net

mirco

Hi guys,

Thanks a lot for your response, they are very interesting.

I have taken a look on both solution : http://www.xav.com/scripts/search/ seems to search only on plain text , html, or pdf. (needs more configuration to be installed and the support is minimum)

for entropy search search only on HTML, PERL, plain text files (which it seems to be more simple to install on cpanel)

For both solution, i need another facility to convert my (doc, pdf, xls, zip,) files on html version that will allow search indexing and improve SEO to all the website because the search engine will be more efficient to index the content of the html version not only the description or a zip format.

So i think that is more appropriate that i choose entropy search because it's more easy to implement and i will be able to have a support by surpass to cpanel.

Do anyone recommend a facility to convert (doc, pdf, ppt, xls, zip,) files format to html ?

I really appreciate your help.