[TYPO3-Solr] Indexing / Querying external sites

[Ingo Renner]

Richard Haeser | alterNET Internet B.V. wrote:

Hi Richard,

> Maybe this is a stupid question,

There are no stupid questions :)

> On a TYPO3 website that's using the solr extension for searching the
> internal pages (this works quite well at the moment) it should also be
> possible to search pages on an external (non TYPO3) website.
> Is it possible to configure the solr extension so it will index sites
> outside the TYPO3-tree? And after the sites are indexed is it possible
> to search on these external sites? Or should the external site be
> indexed on a different way?

An easy way to do this is using Apache Nutch. This is a crawler which 
can directly index into a Solr index.

http://nutch.apache.org


best
Ingo

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Ingo Renner
TYPO3 Core Developer, Release Manager TYPO3 4.2