using ignoredel with gw

[brad52]

I'm using gw on a windows server, and want to use ignoredel to omit anything between the <del>..</del> tags.

I found the help for ignoredel using dowalk, but I couldn't get dowalk to work, and gw seems to be working fine except for this.

(My problem is similar to the one discussed in http://thunderstone.master.com/texis/ma ... 3ac3633114 . We want to exclude the common sidebars, headers, footers, etc. from the search results.)

Any help would be appreciated.

By the way, here's the command we use to walk the site:
gw.exe -d- -exquery=y= -exquery=date= -x/search_results.asp -x/sm_story.asp -x/sm_headlines.asp -x/XcCPA -x/XcCPV -x/ElectroBoard -fasp http://www.somesite.com/

[John]

You do need dowalk to use ignore del. What are the problems you have with dowalk?

[brad52]

When I run:

V:\63.89.206.242-newlook\cgi-bin>texis top=http://www.accessgulfcoast.com dowalk
/dispatch.txt

I get:

000 dowalk(dispatch) 646: Insufficient permissions on todo in the function iprep aretree
000 dowalk(dispatch) 678: Insufficient permissions on todo in the function iprep aretree
Updating Metamorph index 100 dowalk(updateindex) 180: Metamorph Index V:\63.89.206.242-newlook\webinator\
db\xhtmlbod already exists on html(Title\Meta\Body) in the function createindex


*where dowalk is dowalk_beta2 downloaded from ftp://ftp.thunderstone.com/pub/

Thanks,
Brad

[John]

Are you using a database created by gw? In that case as the documentation says at the top of the script:

If you are using a database created by gw you need to uncomment the
<user=_SYSTEM>
call in the settings function below.

[brad52]

Yes, I'm using a database created by gw.

Ok, I made the appropriate changes (commenting and uncommenting) to dowalk.

How does dowalk work with gw? I was thinking the gw walker and the dowalk do the same thing, but do I have to run both? In what order?

I appreciate the help,
Brad

[John]

You can use dowalk entirely by itself if you want. They both do basically the same things. There is a create function to create a database in dowalk, which you would call first if you aren't using a database created by gw, e.g. texis dowalk/create.txt

In that case you would want to leave the <user=_SYSTEM> line commented.