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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

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

Does this plugin still work with GL 1.4.1?

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).