Re: default indexing target

Hello Lachlan (+list)

I do have the option to ask questions (and to propose a default) for the 
site to be indexed. This is done using debconf, hence probably only 
interesting for the debian part. The idea to use the site htdig is built 
on is probably not a good one, since for debian (and possibly for other 
distributions), the packages are built on build farms, and not on the 
end-user's machine. The end user only installs the package, ready for use.

Many people will be using htdig to do a full-text index of their 
documentation they have installed (e.g. man-pages, howto's etc). Those 
people will be using localhost. Other people might use it in a small 
network, with many similar installs. Ht://Dig will be installed on a 
documentation server, and public ip ranges (192.168.x.y, eg.) will be 
used  to access the server. I think the number of users using htdig on 
an externally accessible site, with a unique ip address will be the 
minority.

To solve the debian problem, I could therefore ask whether htdig would 
be accessible form other computers, and if so, if the dns should be used 
to resolve the name or whether ip addresses should be used.

For this reason, I propose to introduce further config file entries, like:

1) use numerical ip's (default = yes)
2) use dns name of the system (default= no)
3) use rfc1918 (default=yes)

Those are ofc just ideas

Robert

Lachlan Andrew wrote:

>Greetings Robert,
>
>Since I haven't heard back, I assume that the person who filed the bug 
>report you forwarded was satisfied.
>
>I have been thinking some more about your suggestion of defaulting to 
>indexing localhost rather than  www.htdig.org.  If we explicitly use  
>http://localhost/  then of course the links will only be correct if 
>the user running a search is browsing from the webserver itself 
>(which will seldom be the case).  It would be quite possible for us 
>to set up  htdig.conf  to dig the site where ht://Dig is *built*, but 
>that wouldn't help people installing packages.  It seems to me that 
>the package installation script is the appropriate place to customise 
>the config files.  Can you think of any alternatives?
>
>Thanks,
>Lachlan
>
>On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 20:25, Robert Ribnitz wrote:
>  
>
>>As the maintainer of htdig in debian I am also responsible for the
>>documentation that comes with htdig.(the htdig-doc package).
>>
>>Recently an error was filed against that package,
>>http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=198740
>>However, to me it looks like the upstream thing (the doc at
>>http://www.htdig.org) is not quite up to date for the 2.3.0b5
>>release.
>>
>>Also imo, the applications defaults should be to index localhost,
>>rather than http://www.htdig.org.
>>




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