Sphider Help Forum

Glad you have it working. Missing a part of the fix is probably my fault! My initial instructions were taken from memory, and my memory only provided 2/3 of the solution. When you still had an issue, I went back and double checked myself.


But we got it all straight now. Happy indexing.

In CPanel you want mysqlnd TICKED and 'mysqli UNTICKED and nd_mysqli TICKED! I know this is counterintuitive, but it works. LOL! You will know you have it right when the last line (API value) of mysqlnd in the info page has a value. ----------------------------------------------- Enabling MySQLnd If...

CPanel and mysqlnd ... This can get tricky. Read this Post - https://www.blog.worldspaceflight.com/2019/07/02/php-shared-hosting-and-mysqlnd/ Essentially, in CPanel you need to CHECK mysqlnd and UNCHECK mysqli! Now allow me to rant for a bit... Sphider requires BOTH mysqli AND mysqlnd. This is true ...

A 500 error is a hard to track server error. Since the installation went fine, and having gotten the login screen, install.php and auth.php ran perfectly. The crash occurred in admin.php. There is a script which can test your PHP installation. https://www.sphider.worldspaceflight.com/downloads/requi...

Many times, the 301 error which has been our nemesis, is "real" in that IS what is reported to Sphider. I can duplicate this by other methods. HOWEVER, in some cases there IS NOT relocation! Wild guess... webmaster is sending a 301 to stop applications like Sphider. I found a work around. ...

When an indexing run gets interrupted, Sphider has always had the ability to pick up where it left off. Re-indexing, however, is a different process. If a re-index gets interrupted, the only option has been to start over. Sphider 4.0.0, 4.0.1, and 4.0.2 (SphiderLite 2.0.0, 2.0.1, and 2.0.2) introduc...

Sorry for the long delay since the last post, but here is what I have found... Many times, the 301 error which has been our nemesis, is "real" in that IS what is reported to Sphider. I can duplicate this by other methods. HOWEVER, in some cases there IS NOT relocation! Wild guess... webmas...

Hopefully the sitemap.xml mod will help in indexing sites. If testing doesn't show any serious problems, the mod will be incorporated into the next release. What I HAVE noticed, however, then even when indexing with a sitemap, the very first (landing) page has to be able to be indexed, If that ends ...

In the case of https://yourstory.com/ , the Sphider nod found in the MODS section of this forum and titled "Index from sitemaps when sitemap is a list of sitemaps" will allow you to index using their sitemap. BUT be forewarned: the sitemap references 759 other sitemaps with a total of 61,3...

Sphider can index from sitemaps if they are simple sitemaps. If the initial sitemap is a list of links to additional sitemaps (popular with larger websites), it doesn't work. This mod shows promise to correct that. There may be situations which interfere in this working, but only testing will identi...