X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/8a6a5320edc2c8a2ed357463b61f161d5b295fbf..486076c94367a40ff6a5e2476d98b87cd8d64f96:/doc/plugins/search.mdwn?ds=inline diff --git a/doc/plugins/search.mdwn b/doc/plugins/search.mdwn index 4c1b50fcd..4d517a266 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/search.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/search.mdwn @@ -1,16 +1,17 @@ -[[template id=plugin name=search author="[[Joey]]"]] -[[tag type/useful]] +[[!template id=plugin name=search author="[[Joey]]"]] +[[!tag type/web]] This plugin adds full text search to ikiwiki, using the -[xapian](http://xapian.org/) engine and its -[omega](http://xapian.org/docs/omega/overview.html) frontend. +[xapian](http://xapian.org/) engine, its +[omega](http://xapian.org/docs/omega/overview.html) frontend, and the +[[!cpan Search::Xapian]], [[!cpan Digest::SHA]], and [[!cpan HTML::Scrubber]] +perl modules (on debian, check that you have packages `xapian-omega`, `libsearch-xapian-perl`, `libdigest-sha-perl` and `libhtml-scrubber-perl` installed). -Ikiwiki will handle indexing new and changed page contents, using the -[[cpan Search::Xapian]] perl modules. Note that it indexes page contents -before they are preprocessed and converted to html, as this tends to -produce less noisy search results. Also, since it only indexes page -contents, files copied by the [[rawhtml]] plugin will not be indexed, nor -will other types of data files. +The [[ikiwiki/searching]] page describes how to write search queries. + +Ikiwiki will handle indexing new and changed page contents. Note that since +it only indexes page contents, files copied by the [[rawhtml]] plugin will +not be indexed, nor will other types of data files. There is one setting you may need to use in the config file. `omega_cgi` should point to the location of the omega cgi program. The default location