Depco Posted March 15, 2004 Posted March 15, 2004 I'm looking for options for adding a 'search' function to a website. I like the features offered by dtSearch (www.dtsearch.com) because I'll need to index PDF files, Excel, Word and of course HTML. I currently have 500+MB of files to index and 80% are PDF. dtSearch is designed for Microsoft servers but they discuss a way to install on non-Microsoft servers here: http://support.dtsearch.com/faq/dts0133.htm. Will that work with TCH? Has anyone here used dtSearch? Other suggestions? Thanks, Dave Quote
TCH-Bruce Posted March 15, 2004 Posted March 15, 2004 The search you are asking about will not run on the TCH servers at this time because they are Linux servers and not M$ IIS. I use the search from atomz.com but don't know if they have the PDF support you are looking for. Quote
Depco Posted March 15, 2004 Author Posted March 15, 2004 I am currently using the free Atomz search. They limit the number of files they will index for free and we're out of space now. Looking for another option. Their index for a fee options are very expensive. It won't work with TCH even with their alternate install option? Too bad! Quote
MikeJ Posted March 15, 2004 Posted March 15, 2004 It won't work with TCH even with their alternate install option? Too bad! No. That documentation should really say "Installing dtSearch Web on non-Microsoft Web Servers on Microsoft Windows" It still requires Windows operating system. I did some research a year ago on PDF indexing search engines, but most of the ones I ended up looking at in any detail were commercial packages. If I find any notes about free ones, I'll let you know. Quote
Hockeypuck Posted March 15, 2004 Posted March 15, 2004 I am currently using the free Atomz search. They limit the number of files they will index for free and we're out of space now. Looking for another option. Their index for a fee options are very expensive. It won't work with TCH even with their alternate install option? Too bad! Doesn't Google offer a free search engine? I've never tried it myself, but i've used it on other people's websites with good success. Quote
LisaJill Posted March 15, 2004 Posted March 15, 2004 I used Google's search for my website before I used MT (which has a built in search engine). It seemed to work out pretty well but I don't have an extremely high traffic site... =) may want to look into it though. Quote
TCH-Bruce Posted March 15, 2004 Posted March 15, 2004 Going to move this to the Looking for forum for organization. Quote
snipe Posted March 25, 2004 Posted March 25, 2004 (edited) I don't know what kind of hosting account you have, but htdig is the search engine script I almost always use. http://www.htdig.org (You might not be able to install it if you don't have shell access, or at least you might need an admin's help from TCH) I would show you an example of it in use, but my server is currently being moved, so everything is down. Once its back up, you can see it in use at the following places tho: www.vactf.org www.caring4wildlife.com Edited March 25, 2004 by TCH-Jim Quote
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