Hi@all,
we wanna use the lucene search on our intranet. As I read on the extension docu, it's not possible to add this extension on windows systems.
So my question: Is there a way to use this search-engine on a windows-System.
regards mic
Mic
This may not be the accepted manner of integrating Lucene but the manner in which we are using it will, I think work on any OS that Lucene will run under.
We looked at the extension but as we have a Mediawiki/Drupal combo this complicates matters in requiring a Drupal module too. It would also complicate upgrades with the Lucene variant of both Mediawiki and Drupal being needed.
We decided instead to stream searchindex contents into an external MySQL table. Lucene then indexes this table with no impact at all to the Mediawiki /Drupal installations.
This way we can upgrade Mediawiki or Drupal without impacting (unless searchindex schema changes) the search. We are redirecting the search bars and a custom advanced search page to our Lucene script to allow more control over documents matched. We are similarly streaming searchindex content into the same external table from Drupal meaning we have one cohesive table which contains all data for indexing.
The table includes page_id, url, title, body and status (add, change, delete) to help keep the index in sync with the site.
This does of course mean that we end up with search data in two places (searchindex and Lucene Index) but I think that overhead is fairly minimal.
Once we get this launched (about a month he says optimistically) I will submit a link. We are hopeful that the performance will be good as we now have approaching 300k pages.
Paul
On 8/30/07 4:44 AM, "Michael Heyder" Info@hafenvolleyballer.de wrote:
Hi@all,
we wanna use the lucene search on our intranet. As I read on the extension docu, it's not possible to add this extension on windows systems.
So my question: Is there a way to use this search-engine on a windows-System.
regards mic
MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org