Sphider Help Forum

While there were no bug fixes in the latest releases, the ability of Sphider to determine page encoding has been enhanced. More remediation of deprecated code has been accomplished. (Fix 'em as we find 'em!) Sphider 5.0.0 also has improved image identification when indexing images. And Sphider 5.0.0...

I just had an interesting experience concerning a 301 error! I have been successfully indexing my own blog, which is WordPress driven. I have also been working on the next version of Sphider, and created a new database instance for it. When testing, I tried indexing my blog. 301 errors!!! several ti...

Editing admin.php is a real adventure!

What I do for cron jobs is create a shell command, then run the shell command in the cron. Example for 'spider.sh": #!/bin/bash cd full-path-to-sphider/admin php spider.php -all The the cron would be 0 * * * * full-path-to/spider.sh Getting back to your deleted pages, if the page still exists b...

At the bottom of admin.php, you need to create a new "case" for the new tab. Near the top of admin.php, you need a new array for the manager functions. Right after the arrays for different tab functions is a group of "if array key exists" statements. You need to integrate the new...

You are welcome to post mods!

The version of Sphider we have now is based on the original, un-updated Sphider, but there have been quite a few changes.

About all I can really ask is that the mods be tested with a recent version.

Yes, -all should reindex EVERYTHING! As to creating a separate process to clear all INDEX data from the database wouldn't really be that hard to create. Essentially, it would just be the "Clear site" code expanded to to cover all sites. You don't want to clear the entire database because t...

Is there a way to know what links appear on each page? No, Sphider has no way of reporting this. While my goal now is to keep Sphider functional and not to add any new features, the idea of knowing what links to what IS intriguing.... Sphider does protect against indexing duplicate pages, but this i...

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...