Mediawiki Google Search Appliance Integration
I was given the task of integrating our old Google Search Appliance with our internal wiki. It turns out MediaWiki offers a couple of different ways to alter search functionality: $wgSearchForwardUrl and $wgSearchType. The $wgSearchType variable accepts a SearchEngine class name and enables custom search back-ends. SimpleXML and the GSA XML API then allowed me to fetch and process the search results. After a few hours of tweaking I am pretty happy with the result, a tightly integrated full text search.
If you are interested in setting up your Google Search Appliance with a mediawiki instance, installation is simple, download or checkout the extension and follow the installation instructions.
Oremj’s Blog » Blog Archive » Mediawiki Google Search Appliance Integration 3:15 pm on October 15, 2008 Permalink |
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