Susmita/Rajib
2024-Apr-18 10:16 UTC
Fwd: Is there a front-end for using xapian-omega rather than the terminal? Could a Xapian database be accessed from web-browsers?
On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 at 06:24, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote: [ ... ]> Yes - it's in the xapian-omega package you already have installed: > > /usr/lib/cgi-bin/omega/omegaThank you, Mr. Betts. for your replying to my questions. Please consider me a novice and elaborate further, Mr. Betts.> You may need to configure apache to tell it to use this for a URL on > your site.How Mr. Betts? Suppose I have a ready open document text file, a LibreOffice text file. say BettsBio.odt, for which I want to create an index file, say, BettsIndex.txt. Please assume that I have used Recoll on BettsBio.odt to create a xapiandb directory and had the database created there already. How do I configure Apache for the purpose to use a web-browser? How do I write the command line to access the web-browser? How do I have omega create the text database with extensive location info of words or phrases within the doc? Best wishes, Rajib Etc.
Olly Betts
2024-Apr-22 02:50 UTC
Fwd: Is there a front-end for using xapian-omega rather than the terminal? Could a Xapian database be accessed from web-browsers?
On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 03:46:53PM +0530, Susmita/Rajib wrote:> On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 at 06:24, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote: > > You may need to configure apache to tell it to use this for a URL on > > your site. > > How Mr. Betts? Suppose I have a ready open document text file, a > LibreOffice text file. say BettsBio.odt, for which I want to create an > index file, say, BettsIndex.txt.A Xapian index is not a text file, rather it's a directory of binary files, so naming it `.txt` would be confusing.> Please assume that I have used Recoll on BettsBio.odt to create a > xapiandb directory and had the database created there already. > > How do I configure Apache for the purpose to use a web-browser?This isn't really the right place to seek help in setting up a particular webserver, and it's also not really my area of expertise, but the relevant apache documentation is here: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/howto/cgi.html#configuring> How do I write the command line to access the web-browser?You don't. You configure apache to map a URL on the website it is serving to the omega CGI, which might be https://example.org/cgi-bin/omega or https://example.org/omega.cgi (which correspond to the ScriptAlias and AddHandler approaches in the Apache docs). Then when a web browser loads that URL, the page it loads is generated by omega CGI program on the server.> How do I have omega create the text database with extensive location > info of words or phrases within the doc?Use the omindex program that comes with xapian-omega. It may be possible to create a database with Recoll and search it with the omega CGI, but whether that works properly depends on exactly how Recoll indexes its documents which I'm not familiar with. There's a lot of flexibility in how you can use a Xapian database, and xapian-omega makes some assumptions (which are matched by omindex but may not be by every program which can create a Xapian database). There's not a good reason to mix and match in this case though as omindex can index all the common formats (and many less common ones). Cheers, Olly
Maybe Matching Threads
- Fwd: Is there a front-end for using xapian-omega rather than the terminal? Could a Xapian database be accessed from web-browsers?
- Is there a front-end for using xapian-omega rather than the terminal? Could a Xapian database be accessed from web-browsers?
- How to use Xapian Omega directly (i.e., without using `recoll` and `xapiandb`) ... Full Set Of Questions Below:
- omega issues/notes
- Re: [Xapian-commits] 6355: trunk/xapian-applications/omega/ trunk/xapian-applications/omega/docs/