Egothor Quick Setup

1. Assumptions

   c:\docs               : documents to be indexed
   c:\index              : the index will be created in the directory
   http://localhost/docs : the URL
   

   So make sure both directories exist and that your documents directory actually has some HTML, Text, XML, Microsoft Word documents or PDF files.

   Note you need to install and configure Xpdf if you want to index PDF files. Follow the instructions here to do this.

2. Setting the index
   
   

   Change to the egothor directory and run the index-set target. On Windows use forward slashes, e.g. c:/index

   cd egothor
   ant jar
   ant -f tasks.xml index-set
   

3. Indexing our documents
   
   Change to the egothor directory and run the war target with the settings from step 1

   ant -f tasks.xml index-local -Dindex.barrel=c:\index -Dindex.www=http://localhost/docs -Dindex.from=c:\docs
   

   When the task is finished you should see a state file and some directories in the c:\index directory.
4. Testing the newly created index via console

   ant -f tasks.xml -Dindex.barrel=c:\index query-local
   

   
   Testing the newly created index via Swing Application

   ant -f build.xml.searchapplet application
   

5. Building the egothor web application

   ant war
   

6. Deploying the egothor web application
   
   Make sure tomcat is running. Copy the file egothor\tmp\dist\egothor.war to %TOMCAT_HOME%\webapps
7. Check that the egothor web app is running by pointing your browser to the following URL:
   
   http://localhost:8080/egothor/
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