Index Server -- Introduction

Overview of Index Search Server

Inspired by Christian Neuss, who wrote the original index search server searching entire directory trees based on hgrep, I made a similar extension to CERN server and implemented the searches using WAIS inverted index files to make queries faster. See techical documentation for details.

After installation making searchable documents is easy: you only add the <ISINDEX> tag into the document, and everything else is automatic: typing in keywords to this document results in a search recursively down the directory tree starting from the directory where the searchable document is (including the files in that directory). See also how to customize the resulting query document.

Distribution

Server modification, scripts, extract_title.c:
as a compressed tar packet via ftp://www1.cern.ch/pub/IndexServer/IndexServer.tar.Z.
WAIS:
ftp://ftp.bouw.tno.nl/pub/internet/wais

AL 24 November 1993