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[thewitt]

This may be slightly off-topic, and if it is, I'll appologise in advance, but I'm trying to find out the source for the Entropysearch cgi program that's available on VDI servers.

Anyone have any ideas? I'd like to extend the functionality of the search index routines if possible. I'd be happy to return the modified code to the owner and they can then make these features available as well.

Thanks,

-Tim

[Matt Lightner]

Entropy Search was written specifically for Cpanel, so I'm not sure if it's open source or not. I can't seem to find it on freshmeat, so I would venture a guess and say that you can't get the source.

If you want to be sure, you should email bdraco at darkorb dot net and ask him.

Regards,
Matt
matt@darkorb.net

[thewitt]

So, I've emailed bdraco at darkorb dot net, as well as the general support email at VDI, and I have not received any sort of information on entropysearch.

Perhaps someone here can at least point me to some documentation. I would like to keep the search engine out of a number of directories on my site, and it does not use a robots.txt file, and I have no documentation available on my host that tells me how to limit the search.

I know how to invoke the search engine on my site, and how to reindex the site, but I don't want all the files on my site indexed.

Is it possible to limit the search engine and keep it out of specific files? Can I override the indexing of all the text in the file and replace it with meta description or content tags?

Thanks for any help you can provide.

-Tim

[Matt Lightner]

You should be able to edit:

/home/username/.searchindex

That's the index file for your site. You can remove files that you don't want to be displayed.

Best Regards,
Matt Lightner
mlightner@site5.com

[thewitt]

This would have to be done with SED or something and added to the re-index script, since re-indexing the site adds back all the info you previously edited out of the .searchindex file.

Hmm, I edited my file and got strange results. I suspect it's not as simple as removing the files you don't want displayed. Blindly editing this file is probably not the way to go .

Thanks anyway.

-Tim

[UNIXIELHOST]

Yup same here, Entropysearch sucks. I dont like it either

It keeps messing up, they need have a new version allows what directory to show or not and etc etc

[thewitt]

For anyone who still cares, I dumped entropysearch in favor of mnoGoSearch. It does a great job crawling the site and has more configuration options than I can ever use.

mnoGoSearch

[iBiz]

Another good script is KSearch from www.kscripts.com. Lots of features