[thelist] Htdig

[Tony Crockford]

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 10:56:10 +0000, Ben Morrison 
<ben.morrison at dogstardesign.co.uk> wrote:

> Recently posted:
>
>> Htdig (the opensource search engine) and might do what you're looking 
>> for:
>>
>> http://htcheck.sourceforge.net/
>
> Has anyone used htdig as I need to implement a search function.
> Any comments on ease of use/setup much appreciated.

I like it.

in use here:
http://www.torbytes.co.uk/

(I even tweaked the results to make thumbnails!)

Quite straightforward to configure, very helpful mailing list - 
documentation seems a bit behind mainly because there are a v small team 
of developers, but they do respond quickly on the mailing list.

latest version (pre-release) has a lot of extra function (like phrase 
searching) I've not tested it yet.

I've built (best to build from source) on a range of machines, including 
Windows XP (using cygwin)

There are contributed wrappers (in PHP) that will allow you to format the 
results with even finer control.

Any specific questions?

hth

Tony