Sphider Help Forum

I'll have to look at this template in more detail. My offhand suspicion is that this template was coded for the ORIGINAL Sphider 1.3.6, from which Sphider 2.1 is descended. But Sphider 2.1 is has undergone MANY changes since 1.3.6. This template may no longer be compatible. But, as I said, I will ne...

Would it be wise? Absolutely not! The more people who download and use Sphider, the greater the likelihood of one of them getting a bad reputation. If they, and many others, use the default "Sphider" as a user agent, that could ruin it for everyone. If, however, a user only uses Sphider to...

If your installation of Sphider is on a Linux based machine, it is highly recommended to password protect the admin directory. How this can be done depends on your host. In some cases, simply by modifying the .htaccess file and creating a .htpasswd file. Most likely, most hosts will ignore that and ...

Actually, the user agent string is defined in the database as varchar(15). Changing the field length in configset.php really just makes a longer field to enter a string which will be limited to 15 characters!

Still, point taken. That would be a good change to include in the next release.

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If so, we'd love to hear from you.

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Data gathered may be used in a POSSIBLE Uers/Testimonials page on https://sphider.worldspaceflight.com.

Sphider 2.1, for all variations, will be released 23 November 2018. It seems that in previous 2.0 versions the wildcard (*) and negate (-) searches were broken. Well, actually BLOCKED would be a better way of saying it. Security got a little TOO tight and the '*' and '-' characters were being stripp...

A demo for Sphider has been created at https://sphider.worldspaceflight.com/demo.php. This demo allows one to search the content on the Sphider Home site . You can also play around with the Sphider Admin page. (Of course, your changes aren't going to be actually saved.) By clicking on the Advanced S...

Actually....
It was quiet today.
My wife went shopping.
Creating a demo was easier than I anticipated.
There IS a functioning demo on the Sphider Home site!
https://sphider.worldspaceflight.com/demo.php

I have to tweak the appearance, but that is about it.

Don't currently have a demo page, but that really IS a good idea... You can see the search part in action at https://www.worldspaceflight.com/sphider/search.php. But I bet what you REALLY want to see is the admin and spidering parts. That's what I would want. I'll try to get a demo up the Sphider Ho...

Maintenance release 2.0.1 was released for Sphider PDO, Sphider PostgreSQL, and Sphider SQLite on 13 November. This inadvertently caused a few issues! So release 2.0.2 for those versions came on 15 November. A number of coding errors were fixed in the database error handling procedures in rss_spider...