WebSearch

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Contents 1 Jaeksoft WebSearch 2 Prerequisite 3 Download 4 Installation 4.1 Install the JAVA JDK 4.2 Extract Jaeksoft WebSearch 4.3 Starting Tomcat 4.4 Use WebSearch

Jaeksoft WebSearch

Jaeksoft WebSearch is an open source web search engine build in JAVA.

Full featured:

• Powerful and scalable crawler
• Efficient indexation for relevant results
• Fast searcher with snippets
• Result rendering in HMTL or XML format

Jaeksoft WebSearch is based on best JAVA technologies:

• The lucene Text search engine library Apache Lucene
• Stable and powerful server Apache Tomcat
• An ergonomic user interface powered by Java Server Faces and Jboss RichFaces

Prerequisite

• Operating system
  • Solaris 8 or newer
  • Linux
  • Mac OS X 10.4 or newer
  • Windows XP/2000/VISTA
• Java Runtime Environment 5 or newer. Eg.: SUN's implementation

Download

Go to download page

Installation

Install the JAVA JDK

• Set the environment variable JAVA_HOME
  • Windows - Eg.: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_06
  • Unix - Eg: EXPORT JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/java/jdk1.6.0_06.

Pour l'installation Windows, la variable d'environnement est installée automatiquement, il n'y a rien à faire.

Extract Jaeksoft WebSearch

Unzip the archive: Jaeksoft-WebSearch.zip.

Starting Tomcat

• Go to the right folder: Jaeksoft-WebSearch/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/bin
• Starting tomcat:
  • Windows: launch startup.bat
  • Unix: launch startup.sh

Use WebSearch

Start your favorite navigator using this URL: http://localhost:8080