On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 12:39:18PM -0800, Chad Day wrote:
> I'm using spider.pl to index my Joomla! Site, and it's spidering it putting the PHP session variable (?PHPSESSID=askjhdskljashdk) on the end.  In the process of indexing the site, this tag changes a few times with a new session ID, so multiple copies of the same document get indexed.  Also, the link appears in the DB with said session variable in it.
> 
> I was able to modify my swish.conf file to remove the PHP session ID variables:
> 
>        ReplaceRules regex /\?PHPSESSID.*$//i
>        ReplaceRules regex /&PHPSESSID.*$//i
>        
> but multiple entries still appear in the database for each document.  What am I doing wrong?

ReplaceRules is just rewriting the file name that it's indexing -- not
telling the spider to only fetch one of the files.

You have to tell the spider how to determine that a url is unique.

This has been discussed quite a bit on the list so you can probably
find info in the archives.

But, IIRC, what you want to do is remove the session id in a test_url
function in your spider config file.

Look at "check_link" in spider.pl -- it calls test_url *then* looks to
see if it's seen the file again.

-- 
Bill Moseley
moseley@hank.org

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