Need to index website and get results with php

Hi all,

hope this is the right forum to post it and hopefully you are able to help me. I have a problem (hmm, only one I want to post here that is ). One of our customers wants us to build a website. This is what we do, so no problems there. The only thing is, they want to host it inhouse (intranet) on a Windows 2k box. Our scripting is partially a standard product which we want expand with new features. This product is written in PHP.

So far, no problems, until they wanted to search the website. Not only the website, but also the documents on that website (this means Word Documents, PDF's, etc). Normally we develop websites which then get hosted on a Linux box, and when a customer asks for a search engine, we use ht://Dig. Brilliant search engine, but it has no port for Windows.

I've found some guides to install ht://Dig on a Windows box, get it to index sites, but cannot retrieve any results. Dug in a bit deeper, recompiled the whole thing myself, but no luck. It has allready taken 3 valuable days and I must come up with something soon.

So, I decided to ask you guys/girls! Anyone familiar with ht://Dig on a Windows box (there are persons claiming they have done it, but there methods don't work .. in my case)?

I'm willing to drop the whole ht://Dig thing if there is an other way of indexing a database driven site, written in PHP, on a Windows box (2k) running IIS with a MySQL database. All I've found is PHPdig (which is not capable of indexing documents) and Microsoft Indexing Server (which indexes static files).

Any help would be extremely appreciated! Any directions too!

Thanks!

Marco

PS. I'm off for the weekend now, so I won't be able to answer any questions (if there are any) right away.

Hi,

Use indexing service which comes with windows 2000 server. Search on MS website for how to enable and use that with IIS.

HTH.
Ganesh Anekar

Thanks, but all I've found on the Internet was that the indexing server could only index files, so to index a website you could only index html files, no scripting. Maybe I've looked on the wrong (outdated!) places

I've found an article on the Microsoft website, so I will try. Thanks for pointing me in the (hopefully) right direction!

Marco