Sphider Help Forum

Sphider looks for the actual page content. I would need to see the actual page to determine the issue. If a page consists only of links and/or images and no actual text, it is possible there will be "fewer than 10 words". One way to see for sure is to clear the site, go into settings and c...

Clearing the site, then doing a new index will not harm anything. Only recommendation is that AFTER clearing the site you then run "clean keywords" from the Clean Tables tab. Also "clean temp" if there is any data in there. Cleaning keywords MIGHT take awhile... Also, when a time...

Sphider, as originally envisioned by Ando Saabas, was for small personal websites. It is, however, capable of handling some pretty large stuff! My own webisite (https://www.worldspaceflight.com) runs about 2000 pages. I have also, during testing, had as many as 15 sites indexed at once, some pretty ...

Getting a 500 Internal Server Error while trying to index or re-index a site can be very frustrating. These errors can be quite persistent and unpredictable. The larger the site, the more likely encountering a 500 HTTP error becomes --- and the more frustrating. While this error is not as disastrous...

Ahhh! Turns out that is a fairly new collation and your version of MySQL obviously does not have it.
Well, easy fix.
Edit install.php and replace all instances of of 'utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci' with 'utf8mb4_general_ci'. Then rerun install.php.

Did you edit settings/database.php and settings/my.cnf for database name, mysql_user, mysql_password, and mysql_server?

Just getting the "Sphider installation script" with nothing after than indicates a failure to connect to the database.

15 October 2023 - Processing of robots.txt files has been improved. Robots.txt is now case sensitive and consideration is given to "allow" directives. All common text files have been integrated into Sphider. The user may assign a default language to a web site, but Sphider will also try to...

I am puzzled... Obviously, I am no guru and am missing something. The 'keyword' field is capable of holding Unicode characters. What version of MySQL (or possibly MariaDB) is running? MySQL, from what I read, has finally made utf8 and utf8mb4 the same instead of utf8 == utf8mb3. If the DB is MariaDB...

"0 rows affected" is expected as there was no operation affecting actual data. Just a table creation which has no data. Can you run a "show create table keywords;" again just to confirm the table does have utf8mb4 varchar. The fact you can manually enter a unicode character into ...

That is a suggestion I will keep in mind. Thanks!