ht://Dig: Overview

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WWW Search Engine Software

ht://Dig Copyright © 1995-2000 The ht://Dig Group
Please see the file COPYING for license information.

## Recent News

- 25 Feb 2000: A new stable release of ht://Dig, htdig-3.1.5, is released. This release is recommended for all production systems. It solves most of the outstanding bugs in the 3.1.x releases, including a serious security hole in htsearch. See the release notes or download it.
- 4 Feb 2000: A new beta release of the 3.2 codebase has been released, htdig-3.2.0b1. This release is intended for testing purposes and to get feedback as to performance, features, and of course bugs. It is not intended for production systems. For more information, see the release notes or download it.
- 30 Nov 1999: Several requests for additional functionality have been made through Cosource.com, including a project in development to add ht://Dig support to KDevelop, an active project looking for a developer to add support for a SQL backend, and another active project to develop a web-based admin interface.

## Introduction

The ht://Dig system is a complete world wide web indexing and searching system for a small domain or intranet. This system is not meant to replace the need for powerful internet-wide search systems like Lycos, Infoseek, Webcrawler and AltaVista. Instead it is meant to cover the search needs for a single company, campus, or even a particular sub section of a web site.
As opposed to some WAIS-based or web-server based search engines, ht://Dig can span several web servers at a site. The type of these different web servers doesn't matter as long as they understand the HTTP 1.0 protocol.

ht://Dig was developed at San Diego State University as a way to search the various web servers on the campus network. Here are some examples of the application of ht://Dig on the SDSU network:

- A "Quick" search on the main campus home page
- A more comprehensive interface to the same
- A search of the online SDSU General Catalog
- Searches through various online documentation

You can search this documentation as well:

Many different types of searches can be set up using only a single search database. For example, the online documentation search above uses the same database as the campus main search. The difference between the searches is that the documentation search will only show results related to the online documentation.

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