Posted on: 04/26/04 01:57am
By: Anonymous (David)
I'm migrating my present mostly static web site to
Geeklog (thanks Geeklog authors!).
I want to continue getting my Google-originated hits
to my old static html pages.
I thought about having a URL redirect to new static pages
in Geeklog, but then found the external pages plugin.
The external pages plugin seems to be the best for me
(maintain old, Google-cached pages/URLs), but searching
external pages is very slow. I added about 150 external
pages, and a search takes about 45 sec. I have
about 400~500 external pages.
I'm guessing external pages are searched by "grepping"
the external files on-the-fly. It seems like
external pages don't have text registered in the database.
I suspect that static pages are stored in the database, and
searches there might be quite a bit faster.
Any advice regarding this migration of old but Googled
static content into Geeklog would be appreciated.
David
Slow search with external pages - migration - static pages better?
Posted on: 04/26/04 11:16am
By: tomw
You are correct that external pages are grepped during a search. Apart from adding them to the database, I have no suggestions about speeding up the search aside from adding them all as static pages, which raises another series of problems.
TomW
Re: Slow search with external pages - migration - static pages better?
Posted on: 02/22/07 11:54am
By: 1000ideen
Does this plugin still work with GL 1.4.1?
Re: Slow search with external pages - migration - static pages better?
Posted on: 03/05/07 04:55pm
By: Anonymous (kyngchaos)
A problem I'm having with External Pages in GL 1.4 is that searches fail outright. I have PHP running as a CGI and for every external page accessed, it also adds a count to a "cgi-bin/php" entry in the database, a well as the page entry, and this "cgi-bin/php" causes searches to bomb.
I don't remember the error - I have been moving to staticpages for a while, and only have a few external pages left, but this error made me disable External Pages. Which led to my GET/POST problem in Static Pages earlier today (
http://www.geeklog.net/forum/viewtopic.php?showtopic=74918[*1] ).