Erik Moeller wrote:
I know that I asked this question before, but I
don't remember whether
we found a satisfying answer. How should the searching be handled once
we distribute a static HTML tree on CD? Is there anything better than a
javascript hack? Distribute a personal web server along with the files?
What do other projects do in this situation?
For indexing:
htdig or Berkeley DB might do the trick. (htdig indices are fairly
bloated, though, and I'm not sure about the fulltext indexing capabilities
of Berkeley.)
You could use a small cross-platform app (no Java, please) to generate the
results, or query the datastore through a CGI-enabled small webserver like
Fnord:
http://www.fbunet.de/fnord.shtml
The early Britannica used a similar solution.
Regards,
Erik
Ah nice (I did see a lot of tiny httpd's lately but this one is new to me).
Indeed, must be possible to do it all via normal CGI-queries.
Write upon 'fnord' or grab source and add wiki-features to it... (?)
Just writing CGI seems best because that is standardised and would
enable migration to apache or some other server... there are probably many
servers out there that can do the job... I think on most Operating Systems
nowadays some kind of 'personal webserver' is already installed... ?
(I also object to Java, it's in the hands of Sun and Microsoft, it seems)
Greetings / thanks for the link,
Pieter