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Website search

Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 10:07 am
by kevrelland
Hi,
I want to create a search for my website, because I have loads of different formats of pages I wanted to use sphider, I have a problem with a NOHOST error because in their words "The servers block connections back to its self called loopback connections. If the script is trying to make a loopback connection to its self then this will not work on our servers.", So basically does anybody know how I can get around this, as this gave me the best results, or where to look so I can build my own.
Kev

Re: Website search

Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 8:30 am
by kevrelland
Any ideas on tutorials or other scripts that can do the same job as sphider?
Kev

Re: Website search

Posted: Wed May 25, 2011 10:34 am
by alex.barylski
Why not just use Sphider? I used it on a directory web site a while back and seemed to do the trick quite well/well enough for most searches. Easy to template/theme into existing designs as well.

Cheers,
Alex

Re: Website search

Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 3:29 am
by kevrelland
I can't use it on my hosting as mentioned in the op.
It worked brilliant in my testing server and I would love to use it on the live site so I need something else
Cheers
Kev

Re: Website search

Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 3:32 pm
by pickle
I've never used Sphider, and I've never heard of this NOHOST error. From what the error says though, it sounds like you're trying to connect to the database using the server's IP. Try using "localhost" or "127.0.0.1" instead. Both of those should use the MySQL socket, rather than going over TCP.

Re: Website search

Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 11:59 pm
by dddmx3
Why dont you try using an open source software like Joomla?