[Xapian-discuss] How to omindex some sub-directories?

Olly Betts olly at survex.com
Wed May 22 12:50:08 BST 2013


On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 05:01:41PM +0530, Charles wrote:
> I've never been clear about what goes on inside a Xapian database but
> understand the /foo can be stripped off and the Apache/omega
> configuration made to serve everything relative to /foo.

If you want to get a feel for what's in the database, I'd suggest
looking at some indexing documents with delve to see the terms which
index them.

> For the use case, running omega with several databases sounds perfect;
> several user URLs could be set up to provide a search for several sets
> from {A,B,C, ... Z} to suit various user groups -- Research, Engineering
> whatever.

You could also use stub database files for such groupings.

> Just out of curiosity, what is a "P term"?  Searching for it just finds
> tickets and code.

I just mean a term with a 'P' prefix.

Cheers,
    Olly



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