Re: Fixing search.debian.org

[Richard Atterer <richard@2006.atterer.net>]

[m-f-t debian-www]

On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 09:33:03AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Don Armstrong:
> > Assuming there's a box available that can handle it, HyperEstraier is
> > pretty easy to set up and configure to do this sort of thing...
> 
> According to what I've heard, it tries to fit the whole database into
> memory during index generation, so it's not suitable for indexing
> lists.debian.org.

Another possibility is mnoGoSearch, it can use UTF-8 as the encoding for 
indexing. I am successfully using it to index a UTF-8 site. It can store 
its data in an SQL database and it even has some sort of page rank 
calculation (which, in my experience, does not work that well with a small 
site).

Cheers,

  Richard

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