Hello all,

To anybody interested in the (or a) solution to the question I earlier put to 
the Group (similar questions have previously been asked by others 
[archives] but remained unresolved): configure & make swish on the same 
system it'll be run on.  Probably seems obvious to most and I know previous 
commentary has suggested using at least the same distribution of linux.  
Nevertheless, I've proven to myself that it is not necessarily satisfactory 
to configure & make swish on one machine, before transfering it to another, 
even when using a "similar" distribution of linux.  Some functions of swish & 
autoswish may still operate, but the outcome isn't necessarily predictable.  
Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Andrew L


On Sunday 21 October 2001 22:41, you wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I was wondering whether anybody knows of a solution to the following
> problem.
>
> I have had swish & autoswish working OK in my environment (Pentium II
> computer, RedHat6.1 & Mandrake 8.0).  The problem comes after I upload
> swish & autoswish to a web site, when I don't seem to be able to get
> autoswish to proceed beyond creating the config file.
>
> The versions I use are:
> 	swish-e-2.0.5
> 	autoswish1.0
>
> Procedure used:
> 1) Swish-e-2.0.5 and autoswish1.0 compiled on a RedHat6.1 Linux system: OK
>
> 2) FTP transfer (ASCII)  of files & web site to the target domain on an
> Apache server running RedHat6.2: OK
>
> 3) Use of autoswish to generate config file for the web site:  OK
>
> 4) Use of autoswish to generate the Index file for the web site:  Problem.
> Despite the program reporting that indexing has been successful, there is
> actually no
> index generated.  The result I get when indexing the web site at the
> location is:
>
> 	"AutoSwish: Automatic Index Creation
>
> 	Your Files Were Succesfully Re-Indexed
>
> 	Command: /home/domain/html/domain/src/swish-e -c
> /home/domain/html/SWISH-E/swish/cantor.conf
> 	Index file in directory /home/domain/html/SWISH-E/swish
> 	Go to the Search Page
> 	Choose another configuration file?:"
>
> This contrasts the result obtained when indexing the same site on my own
> computer.
>
> 	"AutoSwish: Automatic Index Creation
>
>        Indexing Data Source: "File-System"
>        Indexing /home/localdomain/html/demo/ype..
>
>        Checking dir "/home/localdomain/html/demo/ype"...
>        demo.html (4 words)
>        demo2.html (43 words)
>        demo3.html (49 words)
>        demoFlip.html (2 words)
>        demoFlip2.html (14 words)
>
>        In dir "/home/localdomain/html/demo/ype/christine":
>        demo.html (28 words)
>        demo4.html (70 words)
>        demoFlip.html (8 words)
>
>        Removing very common words...
>        1 word removed.
>        0 words removed not in common words array:
>
>        Writing main index...
>        Computing hash table ...
>        Writing header ...
>        Writing index entries ...
>        Writing stopwords ...
>        108 unique words indexed.
>        Writing file index...
>        Writing file list ...
>        Writing file offsets ...
>        Writing MetaNames ...
>        Writing offsets (2)...
>        10 files indexed.
>        Running time: Less than a second.
>        Indexing done!
>
> 	Your Files Were Succesfully Re-Indexed
>
> 	Command: /home/domain/html/domain/src/swish-e -c
> /home/domain/html/SWISH-E/swish/cantor.conf
> 	Index file in directory /home/domain/html/SWISH-E/swish
> 	Go to the Search Page
> 	Choose another configuration file?:"
>
> Anybody got any clues about what might be causing this problem on the
> target site, but not on my own computer ?
>
> Andrew L.