From: john <john>
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 16:22:19 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: added blurb about htdig as a good search engine, pointed to
X-Git-Tag: prexmlproducerconfig~141
X-Git-Url: http://erislabs.org.uk/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=70f19e5980ea789b9ea21b22e1634fd9faa9e9a3;p=mir.git

added blurb about htdig as a good search engine, pointed to
the wrapper script in scripts/
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diff --git a/doc/INSTALL.mir b/doc/INSTALL.mir
index 25b65454..dc2763dc 100755
--- a/doc/INSTALL.mir
+++ b/doc/INSTALL.mir
@@ -225,6 +225,19 @@ and the openposting-servlet via
 standard login is redaktion/indymedia
 
 
+SEARCHING
+
+The Mir code offers no internal search facilities, rather, the design
+expects the use of an external program to crawl and index the static
+site.  One (recommended) tool for doing this is htdig
+(http://htdig.org), which generates static databases of the site
+content and then accesses those databases through a very fast CGI
+program written in C.  In the scripts directory, a perl CGI script 
+which wraps calls to htsearch is provided (scripts/search.pl) which
+will allow searching based off of media type.  (This is possible
+because the standard templates will include META keywords like
+hasAudio, hasVideo, etc.)  
+
 
 TROUBLESHOOTING