Hi:

I know that index files can be merged.  That's no problem.  But, can you
merge index files made on 3 distinct web servers into 1 index file
maintaining the links to the correct files.

For instance, on 3 servers (and therefore in 3 index files) I have the word
"automobile". I would like to be able to combine the index files from these
3 servers (call it mainindexfile) and have the URL's to the files
maintained.

For example:  The results for a search using mainindexfile (3 combined)
using keyword: "automobile"  would produce, say 27 pages.    The first 3
URL's in this example point to pages on 3 servers:

http://server1/cars.html
http://server2/electric/autos.html
http://server3/reports/accidents/funny/hysterical/automobile.html

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: assafr@msil.sps.mot.com [mailto:assafr@msil.sps.mot.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 1999 10:24 AM
To: boblally@gte.net
Subject: Re: [SWISH-E] Combining index files


Bob Lally wrote:

> Hi:
>
> I am using the original swish search engine and just heard about swish-e.
> My problem is this.  I have 3 web sites where I archive information.  I
want
> a user to be able to use a single search engine and be able to find
> information on any of the three sites.
>
> If I were to use swish-e on the 2 UNIX web servers and one on a windows 98
> machine to produce 3 index.swish files, could I then rename them and move
> them to the main web site and use something like this in the search:
>
> -f index1.swish, index2.swish, index3.swish
>
> Would I combine them into 1 index or must they remain 3 separate indexes.
>
> Do you have another suggestion?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Bob Lally
> boblally@gte.net

Hi,
I use swish-e too and I know that you can merge the 3 swish files into a
single
swish file.
check the documentation to find how to merge index files.


Assaf Reich

assafr@msil.sps.mot.com