X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/blobdiff_plain/ce826411b20f94a6ff95b87574b355f897547840..096619f738a097a3ed42a863c8b5e0c001829c99:/doc/plugins/search.mdwn diff --git a/doc/plugins/search.mdwn b/doc/plugins/search.mdwn index 67e3b85ef..f116649c1 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/search.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/search.mdwn @@ -1,17 +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, its -[omega](http://xapian.org/docs/omega/overview.html) frontend, -and the [[cpan Search::Xapian]] perl module. (The [[cpan HTML::Scrubber]] -perl module will also be used, if available.) +[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 `libsearch-xapian-perl`, `libdigest-sha-perl` and `libhtml-scrubber-perl` installed). -Ikiwiki will handle indexing new and changed page contents. 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