[Sarc]

I'm running a Mac OS X Server that has plenty of documents. These include PDF's, HTML, Office, etc.
I need these documents to be searchable, and spotlight comes to mind, since it already has an accurate index of all the documents in the server.

I tried weblight, but it is very limited. I also seem to remember a cgi script laying around somewhere in the OS X Server install that had a search field for spotlight in it, but I can't seem to find it.

Any help is appreciated.

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[moonmonkey]

pre release versions of Tiger has a web search feature built into spotlight.
If someone could dig that out it may still work.


Edit: just realised thats not really what you are talking about, but I still wouldn't mind finding it.

[Sharky K.]

Bookmarks should be seperate documents that update automatically or on command in my opinion. Now you are able to search in them and browse it offline.

[Millennium]

I would be very wary of using Spotlight as a search engine for a Website. Spotlight indexes the entire computer, not just the documents which you designate as part of a site. That can become a very big security problem if you make the index available to everyone through a Web form.

[JLL]

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302424

[Sarc]

Originally Posted by Millennium

I would be very wary of using Spotlight as a search engine for a Website. Spotlight indexes the entire computer, not just the documents which you designate as part of a site. That can become a very big security problem if you make the index available to everyone through a Web form.

Sure, but (I might be wrong), Spotlight uses a common SQLite dbase. Hence something could be coded that granted some user (ie. www) acces to some tables of the database.