On May 18, 2002 at 15:04, pegmgr(_at_)po(_dot_)peg(_dot_)com wrote:
I have some 50+ mailing lists, mostly related, which I intend to index.
My archives go back a number of years and some of the information
becomes dated over time.
I use MHonArc to create my web interface and it is those files which
will be indexed.
Make sure to have the MODTIME resource active when using a search
engine. It makes search index updates more efficient.
I've downloaded and installed 2.0.10 successfully. It created the
directory /usr/local/var/namazu/index .
As I understand it, I should now go to that directory and create
subdirectories for each of my mailing lists
You do not have to indexes under /usr/local/var/namazu/index.
You can customize things via a configuration resource file.
When using the CGI program, you can have .namazurc file that tells
it how to map pathnames to URLs. For example, here is what I have
in my .namazurc for my personal archives:
Index /home/listsarc/archive/html
Template /home/listsarc/archive/cgi-bin/template
Replace /home/listsarc/archive/html/ /~listsarc/archive/html/
mkdir ml1 ml2 ml3 ... ml48 ml49 ml50
Then for each of the directories in which those mailing lists have
indexable files, I change to the appropriate directory and run
mknmz from that directory on the files for that index.
In addition to an index for each mailing list, I was thinking about
creating separate indexes for each mailing list by year, i.e.,
ml1-2002 ml1-2001 ml1-2000 ml1-1999 etc.
I see no reason to have a separate index for each year.
You may want to look at mharc,
<http://www.mhonarc.org/tar/mharc-0.1.3.tar.gz>. It is a web
archiving system utilizing MHonArc and Namazu. At a minimum,
it can give you an idea on how you can organize your list archives.
You'll probably have to look at some source, or run it for awhile,
to see how everything works.
--ewh