Install Full Text Search using OpenFTS (deprecated see tsearch2)

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Install Full Text Search using OpenFTS (deprecated see tsearch2)

By Joel Aufrecht and Malte Sussdorff

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OpenFTS and tsearch1 use is deprecated in favor of Tsearch2. See Install Full Text Search using Tsearch2. Tsearch2 is much easier to install, requiring only compilation of one module from PostgreSQL contrib, with an - automated install process using the tsearch2-driver package.

Install OpenFTS module

If you want full text search, and you are running PostgreSQL, install this module to support FTS. Do this step after you have installed both PostgreSQL and + automated install process using the tsearch2-driver package.

Install OpenFTS module

If you want full text search, and you are running PostgreSQL, install this module to support FTS. Do this step after you have installed both PostgreSQL and AOLserver. You will need the openfts tarball in /tmp.

Install Tsearch. This is a PostgreSQL module that OpenFTS requires.

[root root]# su - postgres
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
 cd /usr/local/src/Search-OpenFTS-tcl-0.3.2/
 ./configure --with-aolserver-src=/usr/local/src/aolserver/aolserver --with-tcl=/usr/lib/
 make
-cd aolserver
+cd AOLserver
 make
 cp nsfts.so /usr/local/aolserver/bin

Build some supplemental modules.

[root aolserver]# cd /usr/local/src/Search-OpenFTS-tcl-0.3.2
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
 make
 su postgres
 make install
-exit

Install OpenFTS prerequisites in PostgreSQL instance

If you are installing Full Text Search, add required +exit

Install OpenFTS prerequisites in PostgreSQL instance

If you are installing Full Text Search, add required packages to the new database. (In order for full text search to work, you must also install the PostgreSQL OpenFTS module and prerequisites.)

[$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME]$ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME -f /usr/local/src/postgresql-7.3.4/contrib/tsearch/tsearch.sql
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@
           It is probably because PostgreSQL's libdir configuration variable points to a diffent directory than where tsearch is.
           You can find out where PostgreSQL expects to find tsearch via
           
pg_config --pkglibdir

-

Enable OpenFTS in config.tcl

If you have installed OpenFTS, you can enable it for this service. Uncomment this line from config.tcl. (To uncomment a line in a tcl file, remove the # at the beginning of the line.)

#ns_param   nsfts           ${bindir}/nsfts.so

Install Full Text Search Engine

Click Admin on the top of the default home page. If prompted, log in with the account and password you entered during install.
Click on the Install +

`Enable OpenFTS in config.tcl`

If you have installed OpenFTS, you can enable it for this service. Uncomment this line from config.tcl. (To uncomment a line in a Tcl file, remove the # at the beginning of the line.)

#ns_param   nsfts           ${bindir}/nsfts.so

`Install Full Text Search Engine`

Click Admin on the top of the default home page. If prompted, log in with the account and password you entered during install.
Click on the Install software link.
Click on the Install new service link.
Click on the Install link next to OpenFTS Driver.

Restart the service.

[$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME]$ svc -t /service/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
 [$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME]$

Wait a minute, then browse back to the home page.
Click on Admin on the top of the screen.
Click on Main Site Administration in the "Subsite Administration" section.
Click on Site Map in the "Advanced Features" section.
Mount the OpenFTS Full Text Search Engine in the site map.
1. Click the new sub folder link on the "/" line, the first line under Main Site:/.
2. Type openfts @@ -131,4 +131,4 @@ new application link.
3. Click on the Install link next to Weblogger.
4. Install all required packages as well (always say okay until you shall restart the server)

Load the service contracts datamodell and enable the service contract

[$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME]$ cd packages/lars-blogger/sql/postgresql
 [$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME postgresql]$ psql $OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME -f lars-blogger-sc-create.sql

Note: Usually this script is called package_name-sc-create.sql

Restart the service.

[$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME postgresql]$ svc -t /service/$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME
-                [$OPENACS_SERVICE_NAME postgresl]$

If you are lucky, Full Text Search is enabled now, if not consult http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=154759. This link also contains some hints on how to make sure it is enabled.

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