excellent post, JIm! Thanks.

Revillini, James wrote on 06/21/2005 12:16 PM:
> I'm writing with a success story / recipe for success on a windows 2003
> box.  In this example, I am indexing a NETWORK FOLDER of word doc files
> and pdfs and then running the search through a browser.
> 
> - install the latest version of activeperl from
> http://activeperl.com/Products/Download/Download.plex?id=ActivePerl - I
> am using version 5.8.7.813 
> 
> I installed perl to e:\perl\
> 
> - download and install swish-e from http://www.swish-e.org/download - I
> grabbed swish-e-2.4.3-win32.exe and installed it to e:\swish-e\
> 
> - index something - in my case, I was trying to index a network drive
> that had thousands of word and pdf docs on it.
>  - create a text file in e:\swish-e\ called swish-e.config
>  - the text file needs only 2 lines that read:
> 
>        IndexDir z:/
> 	 ReplaceRules replace "z\:/" "file\://///server/folder/"
> 
>    (replace "z:/" with the mapped network drive and path - as far as I
> know, the drive must be mapped or the indexer fails; *note: use the
> forward slashes!  Also, replace "server" with the network server name or
> ip address and replace "folder/" with whatever path you need to access
> the files. The only backslashes used are there to escape the colon
> characters)
> 
>  - go to the command line and go to the install path for swish-e
> (e:\swish-e\)
>  - type swish-e -c swish-e.config -S fs
>  - the installer should run without problems (if you have problems, see
> http://swish-e.org/docs/swish.cgi.html and read every last word of
> http://swish-e.org/docs/swish.cgi.html#debugging)
> 
> 
> - set up your search directory
>  - create a directory on e: called "search"
>  - copy into this directory the following files:
>       e:\swish-e\swish.cgi
> 	e:\swish-e\index.swish-e
> 	e:\swish-e\index.swish-e.prop
>  - create a file in e:\search\ called .swishcgi.conf
>  - insert the following text into that file
> 
>    return {
>         swish_binary    => 'e:\\swish-e\\swish-e.exe',
>         swish_index     => 'e:\\search\\index.swish-e',
>         name_labels => {
>             swishdefault        => 'Search All',
>             swishtitle          => 'Title',
>             swishrank           => 'Rank',
>             swishlastmodified   => 'Last Modified Date',
>             swishdocpath        => 'Document Path',
>             swishdocsize        => 'Document Size',
>         },
> 
>     };
> 
> 
>  - save and close the file
>  - in windows explorer, make sure e:\search has the IUSR with
> read&execute permissions
> 
> 
> - create a web site just for running the search in IIS
>  - open iis
>  - expand the server node
>  - right-click websites>new>website...
>  - call it "search", click next
>  - assign it to TCP port 85 (or something unused - I'll assume 85 for
> this example), click next
>  - enter a path of "e:\search\", click next
>  - click next (just leave read and run scripts checked)
>  - click finish
> 
> - setting up perl [PROPERLY] in IIS (this tripped me up because I
> thought I knew what I was doing from windows 2000, but there are a few
> additional steps in windows 2003 server):
>  - open iis
>  - expand the server node
>  - click on web service extensions
>  - select Perl CGI Filter and click allow if it is not already "allowed"
>  - select Perl ISAPI Filter and click allow if it is not already
> "allowed"
>  - expand the web sites node in the left panel
>  - right click the "search" website you just created
>  - click the home directory tab
>  - click configuration...
>  - click the "add" button
>  - path to executable is e:\perl\bin\perl.exe "%s" %s
>  - extension is .cgi
>  - select "limit verbs to" and enter POST,HEAD,GET
>  - click OK - if you get an error about cgi already being defined,
> you're probably all set with perl already BUT CHECK TO MAKE SURE YOU'RE
> ACTUALLY POINTING TO PERL.EXE; for some reason, I was only able to get
> this to work using the perl.exe binary - I tried and tried to get the
> ISAPI file (e:\perl\bin\perlis.dll) going instead but to no avail
> 
> 
> Now you should be able to point a browser to
> http://webserver:85/swish.cgi where "webserver" is your server name.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I hope this helps someone out there get started.  It's great once you
> get it working, but I ran into some very weird windows-related stumbling
> blocks along the way and had to read through many, many email archive
> issues that did not even appear to be on the same topic in order to
> configure this correctly on Windows 2003.  I hope to write another
> message with some of the errors I ran into and how to correct them.  In
> the meantime, I'll try to answer any questions or run test scenarios as
> time permits in order to help debug some other installations.
> 
> -Jim

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