X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/8a6a5320edc2c8a2ed357463b61f161d5b295fbf..84e6c4fa665703133b5778e92c045897df496e97:/doc/plugins/search.mdwn diff --git a/doc/plugins/search.mdwn b/doc/plugins/search.mdwn index 4c1b50fcd..9336b2403 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/search.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/search.mdwn @@ -2,15 +2,16 @@ [[tag type/useful]] 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::SHA1]], and [[cpan HTML::Scrubber]] +perl modules. -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