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Conference gyro::internet_toolss

Title:	Internet Tools
Notice:	Report ALL NETSCAPE Problems directly to [email protected].rnet? Read note 448.L for beginner information.
Moderator:	teco.mro.dec.com::tecotoo.mro.dec.com::mayer

Created:	Fri Jun 25 1993
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	4714
Total number of notes:	40609

4422.0. "?AV Search Private eXt port & URL specs??" by GREGOR::OPP () Mon Jan 27 1997 15:19

    	Has anyone tried installing the Alta Vista Search Private
    eXtensions demonstration product for Windows NT Alpha systems?
    I've tried it several times with unsatisfactory results every time.
    Some questions I have, for which the on-line documentation does not
    provide an answer are:
    
    	1. What TCP port number should be assigned to AVSPX?  
    	   Is there a conflict if AVSPX is assigned to port 80 when
    	   the MS Internet Explorer is already using it?  The first
    	   time I tried this, it seemed to confuse Internet Web 
    	   Services WWW.
    	2. When building an index, how many URL's do you need to 
    	   provide?  To what level of detail do they need to be 
    	   specified?  For example, is http://www.mtv.hlo.dec.com
    	   sufficient or do I need to be more specific, such as,
    	   http://www.mtv.hlo.dec.com/hlo/home.html?
    
    Every time I've tried installing AVSPX on my Alpha PC164 system running
    Windows NT V4.0 SP2, it only finds a handful of servers regardless of
    whether the rule is "include *.hlo.dec.com" or "include *.dec.com".  I
    would expect it to find hundreds of web servers, especially throughout
    all dec.com domains.  
    
    	Thanks in advance,
    
    Greg

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4422.1	try, try again and finally...	GREGOR::OPP		`Tue Jan 28 1997 13:27`	10
	On the seventh or eighth try, AltaVista Search Private eXtension was finally successful. In the last 24 hours it's cataloged 1230 web servers and indexed 33,251 pages. However, it's much slower than I expected, even with the page collection style set to "aggressive". I also have no evidence of what it was I did wrong the first 6 or 7 times I tried to build an index. Let's hope AV's customers don't reproduce my mistakes. Greg
4422.2		HELIX::SONTAKKE		`Tue Jan 28 1997 13:37`	5
	Is there a freeware running on UNIX which will do something equivalent? I tried glimpse and glimpseindex but it not quite right. thanks, - Vikas
4422.3	Try AltaVista's software page	RICKS::OPP		`Thu Jan 30 1997 20:18`	6
	If you go to AltaVista's software web site, the exact specifi- cation of which I do not recall, you can down-load an equivalent evaluation kit for Digital UNIX. Good luck, Greg
4422.4		HELIX::SONTAKKE		`Fri Jan 31 1997 12:31`	2
	Not really; the Digital UNIX kit is for the web-server and it is NOT free.
4422.5	Thought it was the same conditions as NT	RICKS::OPP		`Sun Feb 02 1997 22:32`	7
	I've got to admit, I did not try to down-load the UNIX version. I saw it mentioned in the same "paragraph" as the Search Private eXtension utility for NT. The NT demo is free for a limited time. After that, everyone has to pay the piper to see the vista. Greg
4422.6	AVSPX for Digital UNIX fails to build index	GREGOR::OPP		`Fri Feb 07 1997 16:40`	21
	RE: .4 I did download the AltaVista Search Private eXtension demo for Digital UNIX. It comes packed as a tar file inside of a zip file. I was able to successfully "explode" it to the individual files and execute the set-up script (avsetup). However, when I connect to the management web page to build a new index, it fails due to: ms_doInitConfirm: unable to reset index I could find no explanation of this error in the on-line documenta- tion. If you'd like to try the AltaVista Search (your own private Intra- net) for Digital UNIX, you can try your luck at: http://altavista.software.digital.com/search/index.htm Perhaps, your luck will be better than mine. Greg
4422.7	AVSPx working on UNIX 4.0A Alpha	RICKS::OPP		`Mon Feb 17 1997 22:05`	10
	By repeating the steps - downloading the file, unzipping it, ratting it (tar in reverse), and executing avsetup (shell script) - AVSPx was successfully installed on an Alpha PC running Digital UNIX V4.0A. It's still building the Intranet data base but seems to be working well. I believe the problem with my first installa- tion came about by trying to modify the AVSPx user account before executing avsetup. Greg
4422.8		SMURF::FENSTER	Yaacov Fenster - System Engineering, Troubleshooting and other m	`Tue Feb 18 1997 10:22`	5
	I downloaded the UNIX version and installed it on a v4.0 system. However when bringing up the admin web page I got a notice that the copy was expired. Did this happen to anyone else ? Yaacov