Swish-e

From: Michael Erdmann <michael_erdmann(at)not-real.t-online.de> Date: Wed Jan 24 2007 - 23:12:30 GMT

Hi,

since yesterday I'm using swish-e 2.4.4. on Windows XP with Perl v5.8.8 
and Apache/2.0.54. My swish.conf looks like this:

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IndexFile C:/SWISH-E/bin/my.index
IndexDir C:/

NoContents .jpg .gif .jpeg .png .tif .bmp .eps
IndexOnly .htm .html .txt .xls .doc .ppt .pdf .jpg .gif .png .tif .bmp
IndexContents HTML* .html .htm .doc .ppt .pdf
IndexContents TXT* .txt .log .xls
IndexContents XML* .xml
DefaultContents HTML*
MetaNames swishdocpath swishtitle

FileFilter .pdf pdftotext   '"%p" -'
FileFilter .doc catdoc '-s8859-1 -d8859-1 "%p"'
FileFilter .xls xls2csv '-s8859-1 -d8859-1 "%p"'
FileFilter .ppt catppt '-s8859-1 -d8859-1 "%p"'

StoreDescription HTML* <body> 10000
StoreDescription XML* <text:p> 320
StoreDescription TXT* 500

FollowSymLinks yes
IndexReport 1
ParserWarnLevel 1
IgnoreWords File: C:/SWISH-E/share/doc/swish-e/conf/stopwords/german.txt
TranslateCharacters :ascii7:
BumpPositionCounterCharacters |.
HTMLLinksMetaName links
IndexComments yes
ReplaceRules replace "C:" "file:///C:"
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Indexing and searching with the command line works fine, so I wanted to 
implement a desktop and network search with swish.cgi. The swish.cgi is 
installed and works, I can do a search with the above mentioned index 
and I get results.

The problem is I can not open results on my local hard-drives by 
clicking the link_property-link (swishdocpath) (for example 
file:///C:/somedirectory/somefile.pdf), because the result documents are 
outside of the apache documentroot. Copy the link and open it direct in 
the webbrowser works - that means, the link is ok. Opening a document 
from a web-location works with the prepend_path parameter.

I found a "dirty" workaround: creating aliases in the http-conf /localC/ 
or /ServerP/ which point to C:\ or the network share P:\ and running the 
apache-service with my account instead of the local system account. Now 
I can open results with file:///C:/... or file:///P:/... But this is not 
my preferred solution, because it is insecure.

Does anybody know a better/easier way to open search results with local 
files on the harddisk (copy and paste of the link is very 
circumstantially)?

One more question: How can I index my mailbox on an 
Outlook/Exchange-Server? Are there any tools or experiences (I did a 
search in the archive of the mail discussion list, but I found nothing)?

Best regards,
Michael

Swish-e

question from a new user: open search result links to local files