Hello again! The search engine is now working beautifully; however, we've
run into an interesting problem. This company has a lot of products with
the "/" in their names (e.g., Window/Washer). However, because of the REX
pattern matcher, I guess the search engine interprets "/" as the beginning
of a regular expression.
I don't think any of the users of this site will want to use the REX
feature. Is there any way of turning it off? Any simple workarounds for
this problem? I could instruct users to use the wildcard *
(Window*Washer) but it would be confusing, since so many documents on this
site do have "/" in them.
Searching for the words
window washer
should find those products, which should rank high since the words are
next to each other.
A / in the middle of a term does not begin a REX expression, so
"window/washer" will be treated as a single term. However the index
normally only indexes letters and digits, so you would need to tell it
to also index /. You could do this with:
When trying to run gw -unindex so I can index "/" for my searches I get the following error message:
" 000 Can't get address for host `napplication/pdf/pdf,pdftotx': 0 - unknown winso
ck error
Visited 0 pages total "
I used: napplication/pdf/pdf,pdftotx to index my pdf's, but seems to be causing a problem when trying to run "-unindex", so what do I have to do to get it to index the "/"
"No database specified. Use the default (D:/inetpub/millenium/webinator/db)?
(y/n) default is y : You may use "-d-" to skip this question in the future.
and got:
No database specified. Use the default (D:/inetpub/millenium/webinator/db)?
(y/n) default is y : You may use "-d-" to skip this question in the future.
Visited 0 pages total
After trying to reindex and getting the messages above, I try to do a search and got:
Warning: Query 'keon' would require linear search
this happened the first time, so I ran -wipe and then re-indexed the site, but then I still couldn't do searches with "/" them, which is what I am trying to accomplish.
If I did a -wipe again and started from scratch, what would be the syntax to type to append to this string:
gw -fasp -n"application/pdf,pdf,pdftotx" http://{sitename}
to reindex my site to be able to do searches with"/" in the search.
Mark,
I've done this twice and still any time I do a search, eg. "ace/server" it comes up "No documents matched your query. " but if I type in "ace server" I get documents with "ace/server" in them, but our customers need to be able to type in a search with \ in it.