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Reindexing timeout question - 4 years ago
When I'm indexing a brand-new site, and spider.php times out, I can just hit "reload" in the browser and it will resume spidering where it left off. That's great. Sphider times out frequently on my sites, but as long as I can resume where it failed, I'm fine. However, when I am *** re-indexing ***, and spider.php times out, I can't just hit "reload". If I do, the reindexby Dekortage - Sphider Support
Use Antiword in place of Catdoc? - 4 years ago
I have set up Sphider on a client's shared hosting package. Searching, indexing works fine. I even got xpdf to work so it can handle PDF files (see for the details). Like a lot of other people, I am looking for a way to let Sphider index Word files. Catdoc might work if I could find a precompiled binary for my host, but that presents two problems: first, I have no shell access (shared hostby Dekortage - Sphider Mods
Re: Those dumb "MYSQL server has gone away" errors - 4 years ago
I've tried following the mods posted by fastest963 on November 13, 2007 (2:32pm, posted above). According to my web host, they disabled the MySQL "flush" command, so I changed the code to "reset". Seems to be working so far -- only tested on small sites, but it's working.by Dekortage - Sphider Mods
Re: Indexing PDFs on Linux with Sphider-plus (solved for me) - 4 years ago
I'm new to Sphider, but adapting your instructions, I got the converter working with regular Sphider (not Sphider-Plus). Thanks. My only problem is that it doesn't seem to work if I index via command-line, but it does work via the web interface. Unfortunately this client's web host seems to have a ridiculously low limit on memory size, so any PDF over 3mb generates a fatal error. No accessby Dekortage - Sphider Support