[Xapian-discuss] Wiki: Omega walkthrough

[Jim Lynch]

Hi, James,

Please change it as you see fit.  I appreciate the help.  I still 
consider myself a novice at this and still learning.   I'll be the first 
to admit the document is far from perfect and welcome expert modifications.

Jim.

James Aylett wrote:

>Finally had a chance to read this - looks great, thanks Jim!
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>I think we can improve it ever so slightly by being a little more
>explicit at the end:
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>>{{{
>>/usr/local/bin/omindex --db /var/lib/omega/data/default
>>--url /book /var/www/book
>>}}}
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>>The --url parameter identifies the url prefix that corresponds to
>>the directory we start indexing from. Since we put the documents in
>>/var/www/book we need to specify --url /book. If we were adding
>>files that were in the document root, we'd set use --url /.
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>>The last parameter, /var/www/book tells omindex to look for the
>>documents at that location on disk. Omindex does not web crawl, it
>>only looks at files on disk.
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>The sentence "since we put the documents in /var/www/book we need to
>specify --url /book" needs unpacking in my opinion, just to mention
>that /var/www is the document root. Not quite sure what to add though.
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>In fact, earlier one when book.0.1.tar.gz is unpacked we could perhaps
>do with making this explicit as well. Immediately after the unpack
>{{{...}}} code block we get:
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>>You may also extract the files somewhere else and copy them to your
>>document root.
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>Perhaps we should add after that:
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>>In this example our document root is /var/www - if yours is
>>different you will need to modify the instructions in the rest of
>>this document accordingly.
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