Sammy (sammydcl@centurion.flash.net)
Fri, 21 May 1999 20:07:15 -0500
I just wanted to write and say that I had
been looking for a really good search engine
for quite a while now. This thing totally
does everything that I want and need. This
is probably going to sound a little nuts, but
I'm currently running htDig on a Linux server
through a dialup account. I know, everyone said
it was next to impossible. But I've done it with
literally a perfect example of what can be done.
At first, I really just didn't want to shell out
the money for a permanent ip address. Now it has
gotten to be a kind of challenge of what all I
can actually accomplish. It's a pretty large site
with YOUR search engine indexing it all. But
it works perfect. I can index literally everything
EXACTLY the way I want.
I wrote a program to extract the ip number out of
ifconfig, and then through a daemon that I wrote,
it checks to see if I'm still connected to my ISP.
Pings the server just once, and if all is connected,
does absolutely nothing. If not, it goes through
a pretty healthy number of scripts redoing a lot of
the pages that need to reflect the new ip numbers.
If carrier is lost for whatever reason, within a
couple of minutes, the entire system is back on
line, htDig and all.
One of the scripts that I wrote is just for htDig.
The reason I wrote this script is no matter what I
did with your software, couldn't get it to work in
relative addressing mode. It seems to need this
minimum statement in the htdig/conf/htdig.conf file.
Example:
start_url: http://208.72.67.17/
Remember that I'm running off of a dialup account
with NO permanent ip address and it changes at least
once a day. Is there any way to use a declaration
like this?
start_url: /index.html
This is not a real critical matter, since I've been
able to get around this, but it would be nice NOT
to have to recompile /htdig/htdb files unless I just
wanted to.
Thanks ... Sammy
sammydcl@flash.net
http://www.flash.net/~sammydcl
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