Intranet/LAN/NAS Search/Indexer Appliance

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mlanner

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I've been looking at different solutions to run some kind of search/indexer appliance against my NAS and potentially other shared resources on my network. I've looked into using the Peagle web front-end on top of Beagle (http://beagle-project.org), as well as Flax on top of Xapian (www.flax.co.uk).

Essentially, being able to quickly and easily deploy a search/indexer server on an intranet with a web UI that lets one search for files and folders across the network, Google-style, would be really, really nice.

Rgds /// mL
 
mlanner said:
I've been looking at different solutions to run some kind of search/indexer appliance against my NAS and potentially other shared resources on my network. I've looked into using the Peagle web front-end on top of Beagle (http://beagle-project.org), as well as Flax on top of Xapian (www.flax.co.uk).

Essentially, being able to quickly and easily deploy a search/indexer server on an intranet with a web UI that lets one search for files and folders across the network, Google-style, would be really, really nice.

Rgds /// mL
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flax looks interesting, but the web interface is not available yet.
http://code.google.com/p/flaxcode/wiki/FlaxSearchServerIndex

the beagle web interface is on a early phase but looks also promising.
http://beagle-project.org/Beagle_Webinterface

maybe someone can picks it up or just try contacting the developers of these projects and suggest to create a appliance with dab?
 
tom said:
flax looks interesting, but the web interface is not available yet.
http://code.google.com/p/flaxcode/wiki/FlaxSearchServerIndex
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Actually, although I have yet to install it, based on this blog post, I think the Flax web UI is available:

http://www.rawiriblundell.com/?p=959

The Beagle web UI is nice, but it lacks a lot of features and usability at this point. Also, to run a Beagle server, you need to have a full desktop environment. It's a bit of overkill for a server in my mind.
 
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