mnoGoSearch 3.2 reference manual

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

mnoGoSearch Features

Where to get mnoGoSearch.

Disclaimer

Authors

Contributors (in no particular order)

2. Indexing

Indexing in general

Configuration

Running indexer

Built-in database notes

SQL backend notes

Subsection control with SQL backend

How to clear database (SQL only)

Database Statistics with SQL backend

Link validation (SQL only)

Parallel indexing (SQL only)

Supported HTTP response codes

Content-Encoding support

indexer configuration

Specifying WEB space to be indexed

Aliases

ServerTable

External parsers

Extended indexing features

News extensions

Indexing MP3 files

Indexing SQL database tables (htdb: virtual URL scheme)

Indexing binaries output (exec: and cgi: virtual URL schemes)

Mirroring

Using syslog

Storing compressed document copies

Configure stored

How stored works

Using stored during search

4. Storing mnoGoSearch data

SQL storage types

General storage information

Various modes of words storage

Storage mode - single

Storage mode - multi

Storage mode - crc

Storage mode - crc-multi

Storage mode - cache

SQL structure notes

Additional features of non-CRC storage modes

Cache mode storage

Introduction

Cache mode word indexes structure

Cache mode tools

Starting cache mode

Optional usage of several splitters

Using run-splitter script

Doing search

mnoGoSearch performance issues

MySQL performance

Post-indexing optimization

SearchD support

Why using searchd

Starting searchd

Merging several databases

Distributed indexing

Oracle notes

Introduction

Compilation, Installation and Configuration

IBM DB2 notes

5. Subsections

Categories

Tags

Tags in SQL version

Tags with built-in database

6. Languages support

Character sets

Supported character sets

Several languages in one database

UTF-8 mode

non-UTF-8 mode

Recoding

Recoding at search time

Character sets aliases

Document charset detection

Automatic charset guesser

Default charset

Default Language

Making multi-language search pages

How does it work?

Possible troubles

7. Searching documents

Using search front-ends

Performing search

Search parameters

Changing different document parts weights at search time

Using several templates

Advanced boolean search

How search handles expired documents

How to write search result templates

Template sections

Variables section

Includes in templates

Using several formats with one template

Security issues

Designing search.html

How the results page is created

Your HTML

Forms considerations

Relative links in search.htm

Adding Search form to other pages

Relevancy

Ordering documents

Boolean search

Crosswords

$(DR) template variable

Search queries tracking

Search results cache

Fuzzy search

Ispell

Synonyms

8. Miscellanious

Reporting bugs

Currently known bugs

Core dump reports

Using libudmsearch library

udm-config script

mnoGoSearch API