Anyway to index site from server rather than desktop?

[cdmoon]

Hi,

We have zoom search setup on a client site and it works great, but we don't want to be burdened with having to manually re-index the site from our computers. I know that you can set the program to automatically index and upload but we are looking for a more permanent "hands off" solution that is self-contained. Even if it means they have to "click here to re-index" from the backend.

Does anyone know if we have any options with this or are we stuck with using the desktop gui?

[David]

If you have a Windows server (and actually control the server) then there is no reason why you can't install the indexer directly on the server and schedule it on the server.

We have a lot of customers doing this. Some of them also use remote desktop to control the machine(s).

[Ray]

If you wanted to script a page which allows you to "click here to reindex", you would do so using the command-line parameters as described here:
Q. How do I use the command line options with the Zoom Indexer?

As mentioned above, this would only apply for Windows web servers.

[cdmoon]

unfortunately we don't have direct access to our windows server, it is in a shared environment

we do have direct access to a Linux box, is there a Linux port of the indexer or does anyone have experience trying to get it to work with WINE?

[David]

See these FAQs.
Q. Does Zoom run on Linux, Mac, BSD, ... ?
Q. Is there a Linux, Mac, BSD, etc.. version of the indexer?

We haven't tried using Wine. But I be a little surprised if it just worked.